alternative options for ports

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Miércoles, 13 de Octubre de 2004 21:34, David O'Brien escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:38:40PM +0000, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:51:01PM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> > > I personally do not like dialog's in ports, period. It makes
> > > unattended builds a pain, mostly when compiling large ports with
> > > an extensive list of depends, you never know which dependency is
> > > going to pop up a dialog in the middle of an all-night build.
>
> Hear, hear!
> [...]
>
> OPTIONS isn't the answer -- they don't do anything for 'pkg_add -r'
> users.  Since we go to a *lot* of work building packages and making
> them available there must be a huge number of consumers of them.  We
> should be making more port variations.  vim-gtk, vim-kde, vim-athena,
> vim-motif for instance.  That way a pkg_add user and get what they
> want.

And is anyone working in a kinda of ${LOCALBASE}/etc/pkg_add.subr?  I 
see a lot of pkg_install scripts doing near the same things.

--
  josemi