alternative options for ports

[Frank Laszlo]

Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup wrote:

> I would like to poll if there is any need for an extension to the 
> current menu-driven config frontend.
> My idea was to implement a kind of alternative options, like 
> radio-buttons in a gui, using "dialog --menu" or something like this. 
> Not enable/disable options, but a way to select one option out of a 
> few others.
> For a new port (the lxr source code cross referencer) I will need a 
> selection of one of three database clients to use and one of two 
> indexing/search engine.
> Please correct me if if there is yet a way to achieve this other than 
> coding directly in the ports' makefile.
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> Will there be any use for some other ports (in the future?).
> I would go to implement this in bsd.port.mk if this is favoured and 
> would make sense for others.
> Otherwise, I would implement a way in the ports makefile or using a 
> command line/environment option like WITH_DB=xxxx.
>
> I would be pleased to get some feedback.
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup
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I personally do not like dialog's in ports, period. It makes unattended 
builds a pain, mostly when compiling large ports with an extensive list 
of depends, you never know which dependency is going to pop up a dialog 
in the middle of an all-night build. I would suggest implementing your 
idea specifically for your port. I dont see any reason to hack up 
bsd.port.mk with anymore dialogs.
Just my 2 cents.

-Frank Laszlo