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[Scot Hetzel]

> On the subject of which, does anyone know if there is any convention for the
> pre-built FreeBSD packages? i.e. Are they built extremely conservatively,
> with all optional bits switched off, or aggressively, i.e. all optional bits
> on? Or is it "default", i.e. most commonly wanted options on, more obscure
> off; or finally, just purely random, down to whatever the person who built
> the package happened to choose at the time depending on their mood?
>

The default options are usually what ever the Port Maintainer decides
are to be the default.  Over time, the user community requests that a
certain option be either enabled or disabled by default.

There are also some ports that when a certain variable is set during a
package run, that it overrides the ports default options, and uses
different options for package building (I'm guessing so that the port
is more compatible with other ports).

Scot
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