Limitations of Ports System

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Skip Ford wrote:
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> RW wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman"
>>> <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with
>>>> 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already
>>>> set it for abc.
>>> How do you know the user wants 345 set on both ports?
>>>
>>> It might be a useful stable feature on "abc", but causes
>>> lock-ups on "def"
>> There are multiple ways to handle the effects of 345 on def...
>> only one of them is to automatically apply it the other two are
>> def can ignore it by default or make it suer settable
>
> Other than the automatic caching apsect, how would this be any
> different from what we already have with ports-mgmt/portconf?
>
> Currently, if you want a knob to apply to all ports, you wildcard
> the knob in your ports.conf file.  If you want the same knob
> defined differently depending on port name, you define it per port.
>
Often it is not possible to know if you want a knob until seeing it in
context... see my reply to RW for more info

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