ports structure and improvement suggestions

[Serge Gagnon]

>>>>> On Tue, 9 May 2006, "Sideris" == Sideris Michael wrote:

  Sideris> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:20:59PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

  +> Sideris Michael writes:

  +> > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:  No
  +> > > one is taking away any rights.

  +> > Of course. That's why every ports should have a configuration panel.

  +> Wrong. I do not intend to convert any of my ports to use OPTIONS so
  +> don't bother sending me patches. Many ports are so simple that adding a
  +> configuration panel would be totally unnnecessary and ridiculous.

  Sideris> So, if you have 10 of this ports as dependencies, you prefer go
  Sideris> seperately to each port directory and search through the Makefile
  Sideris> to find what KNOBS it provides. Nice.

For my part, as an average user, it's "yes".
I'm used to
cd ${PORTSDIR}/foo/bar
grep WITH Makefile
more Makefile
/DEPEND
and I have absolutly no problem with this.

I'm also used to work with dumb terminal (9term) and I don't like ports 
that stop because it cannot display its blue OPTIONS panel (eg: 
ghostscript).
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