cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:12:24PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> IMHO, sticking to an old-world order, you're locking yourself of out
> many advantages that OPTIONS bring to you.  There're about a dozen of
> options, and more will appear (I'm about to pull some nifty Gentoo
> patches to fvwm2-devel in some near future).  Without OPTIONS, our users
> would have to read the Makefile (well, that could be avoided by priting
> them in pre-everything:: target), but they would still need to manually
> define all those knobs on command line (or in pkgtools.conf).

Or stick them in /etc/make.conf and still have them available for every
build.  I'm more than able to use 'vi' and edit /etc/make.conf.
And I don't get surprises later when I start some 'make install' of a
package with dependencies and walk away - only to find it stopped wanting
to know if I want to select some mostly useless options.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)