NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Wed Jan 23 07:47:23 PST 2008


On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

>> What was broken that required this to be "fixed"?
>
> Inconsistent use of what NO_FOO= meant.  Some places only checked if  
> it
> was set, other places required it to be set to "yes", so NO_FOO=no
> might disable FOO or it might not.  The WITHOUT_* / WITH_* scheme was

I guess I wasn't clear about my confusion. What was broken about  
putting all this in make.conf that necessitated a src.conf file too?

Having the names consistent is great, though.



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