Question about new options framework (regression?)

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:46:23PM +0100, Jase Thew wrote:
> On 27/07/2012 10:41, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:41:10PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >>
> >> Jase Thew wrote:
> >>  > On 25/07/2012 23:57, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>  > > because the priority goes to global to specific and the most specific is the
> >>  > > options file.
> >>  > > 
> >>  > > if most people want the options file to not have the final priority, why not,
> >>  > > can others spread their opinion here?
> >>  > 
> >>  > I can't see why it would be of benefit for saved options to override
> >>  > anything passed to make (either env or as an arg), as one of the reasons
> >>  > you're likely to be passing them is to override any saved settings in
> >>  > the first place.
> >>  > 
> >>  > Please consider reverting back to the established and I daresay,
> >>  > expected behaviour.
> >>
> >> I agree with Jase.
> >>
> >> Actually I'm not sure if PORTS_DBDIR should override make.conf
> >> or vice versa.  I don't know which one should be regarded as
> >> more specific.
> >>
> >> But anything specified on the commandline is definitely more
> >> specific than PORTS_DBDIR and should override anything else.
> >>
> >> One way to do that would be to introduce another pair of
> >> variables, e.g. OVERRIDE_SET and OVERRIDE_UNSET, so you could
> >> type:  make OVERRIDE_SET=STATIC
> >>
> > 
> > I think that is the more reasonnable, I'll add this when fully back. I was
> > thinking of LATE_SET and LATE_UNSET but OVERRIDE_SET and OVERRIDE_UNSET sounds
> > better to me.
> > 
> 
> What use-case are you thinking of that requires the ability for saved
> config to override manually specified config? If there isn't a
> compelling reason for this, then I'd personally much rather see the
> original behaviour restored rather than adding another two variables.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jase.
> -- 
> Jase Thew
> jase at FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD Ports Committer
> 
> 

The use-case is the one which is the start of this thread. Olivier has a save
configuration of zsh and want in one shot be able to activate the STATIC option
which is not activate in his normal zsh.

regards,
Bapt
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