Suggested improvements for ports

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> 1) You can't build a dependent port and first set the config for
>> the options that you want.  So, when you select sasl in postfix,
>> you never get the chance to check the saslauthd option, for
>> example.
>
> As the ports man page states:
>
> # make config-recursive
>
> does what you want. It's surprising how often people claim this
> feature is missing, even though it has been there ever since I
> started using FreeBSD.
>

Not completely correct for reasons given in
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf


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