5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

[Doug Barton]

Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:

>  Hmm, let me cite your letter in this thread:

This isn't a court of law. :)

> sysutils/portconf does not have that limitation. If you specify flags using
> that method, they will always be used.
> 
> FYI,
> 
> Doug
> =========================================================================
> 
> So, one can mistakenly think that "always" here really means ALWAYS
> (i.e., for every port). However many ports use that funny OPTIONS (in
> the ports sense) which completely ignore make's WITH_xxx / WITHOUT_xxx
> environment variables, so "always" isn't correct word here I suppose.

I probably should have said, "will always work like a a variable in
make.conf would." If I caused confusion, I apologize.

As for the other things you mentioned, I'm sure that the respective authors
would welcome patches to correct the shortcomings you perceive.

Doug

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