alternative options for ports

Frank Laszlo laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Thu Oct 14 07:11:47 PDT 2004


I just had a thought about this whole thing. I know a lot of users feel 
intimidated by the Makefile's in ports,
and would not dare open one up in an editor. Even if they did, they 
wouldnt understand it fully. so what if
the ports had a target that listed possible options within the Makefile, 
and what exactly they did. Maybe
this would require another file in the ports, like 'pkg-options' It 
would be formated something like this

WITH_SOMEFEATURE            Add so and so feature to the package.
WITH_SOMETHINGELSE         This will create something here.

That way a user could just type something like 'make listoptions' and it 
will give a nice list of build options
for a specific port. Anyone have any feedback on this?

Regards,
    Frank



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