Setting make options permanently (WITHOUT_GNOME, etc)

[Dan Naumov]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:31:34 +0200
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

> > 
> > 1) Is there a definite list of these variables ?
> 
> No.

That's just plain "wrong". In this particular thing Gentoo Linux seems
to be very much ahead of FreeBSD with their implementation of the "USE
variables". They have a definite list of all USE variables and if a new
variable is added by a new / updated port, it MUST be added to the list
at the same time as the new / updated port gets committed.

How would one go around "lobbying" for introducing such a policy in
FreeBSD ? I understand that creating such a list is a HUGE LOT of boring
work (going through 8300+ Makefiles by hand, fun fun fun), but I think I
would volunteer to do this. However, if I did this, I'd like to have a
guarantee that after I actually finish the list, it WILL be committed.

Sincerely,
-- 
Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at ofw.fi>