ports/95092: Re: [PATCH]: Add knob to allow for mutually exclusive OPTIONS

[Frank Laszlo]

The following reply was made to PR ports/95092; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof at vonostingroup.com>
To: Clement Laforet <clement at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>, 
 FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org,  portmgr at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/95092: Re: [PATCH]: Add knob to allow for mutually exclusive
 OPTIONS
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:55:23 -0500

 Clement Laforet wrote:
 > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:28:28PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 >   
 >> I don't like adding new bsd.port.mk variables for the benefit of only
 >> 2/14000 ports..
 >>     
 >
 > Many ports don't use OPTIONS because of the lack of mutual exclusive 
 > support.
 >
 > clem
 >   
 That is a good point, I also think that since OPTIONS is the recommended 
 method for adding user interaction to ports, We should expand on its 
 functionality. Perhaps add support for submenu's such as those that are 
 used in sysinstall. This would allow port maintainers to use both 
 checklists and radiolists side by side.
 
 -Frank