svn commit: r307837 - head/comms/morse

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 27 16:01:33 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:54:00AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 27 November 2012 10:50, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > It is not just a matter of aesthetics, it's reducing environment pollution
> > with gratuitously different names of standard knobs.  As for POLA, these
> > days people are supposed to cache their OPTIONS selection in /var/db/ports
> > instead of hardcoding them in /etc/make.conf.  Upon upgrade, dialog will
> > pop up again since OPTIONS had changed, nothing should go unnoticed here.
> 
> Some people do not want to use the dialog(1) interface. Using
> /etc/make.conf is expected and fully supported.   We should not
> gratuitously break option names.

OK; however, in this case we're not gratuitously breaking it, we're changing
bogus name to more explicit, standard, used in many other ports name.

If someone feels badly about it, UPDATING note can be added, although IMHO
in this case nothing really warrants it.  It is not particularly popular
port, and it's better to fix these issues early rather that later.  Dixi,

./danfe


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