[announce] bsd.port.options.mk available

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Fri May 22 14:31:46 UTC 2009


* Pav Lucistnik (pav at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> we finally decided that enough users migrated to recent enough FreeBSD
> versions that we can finally suggest that maintainers can start using
> <bsd.port.options.mk> file in their ports.
> 
> The examples in Porter's Handbook had been updated to illustrate a new
> usage.
> 
> This will solve the problem with USE_* flags people were seeing.

Perhaps we can also start to deprecate WANT_*?

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