putting HESIOD, Appletalk and IPX on notice

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Aug 5 20:39:04 GMT 2005


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:25:32PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> >
> >I think it is time we deorbit HESIOD in toto.
> 
> OK - please give it _plenty_ of time.
> 
> >At the same time, making Appletalk and IPX "opt in" facilities by
> >putting them under
> >	YES_IPX
> >and
> >	YES_APPLETALK
> >boolean build options seems a sensible move.
> 
> Cool. I think the standard is "WANT_FOO", but that is a detail. It 
> may be an idea to make these default to "off" in releases, but keep
> them in HEAD until they become too painful to care about. That 
> would probably handle the CYB factor the best.

Ports uses WITH_*/WITHOUT_* for user control knobs, and WANT_* is for
internal port use only.

Kris
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