Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:24:41 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synth and circular dependencies Message-ID: <CAJuc1zOvS51-MsVqcwAfMGYoeNV46wZm5agNecM6o3u2WL_rrQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30.03.31699.752AB995@dnvrco-omsmta03> References: <30.03.31699.752AB995@dnvrco-omsmta03>
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On 22 August 2017 at 15:17, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: [...] > I really need to be able to see the options in a better way than the FreeBSD ports framework allows, like in a file /etc/mk.conf (pkgsrc) or USE= ... as in /etc/make.conf (Gentoo portage). > > Dialog4ports is better than the previous dialog but not as good as seeing in a file mk.conf or make.conf . > > Otherwise, I don't really know any elegant way to fix the options mess I got into. Any reason why don't you can't all your options into /etc/make.conf? I've never used /var/db/ports options as they're not easy to review in one go. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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