On 1-6-2012 21:13, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > I hate WITHOUT_NLS and NO_PORTDOCS with a passion. They work for 80% of > the ports you are likely to install, so they are not a safe way to > escape docs or NLS. Why bother? Seriously, could someone give me a > usecase for them?
Not sure which ports don't honor NOPORTDOCS, but that should be fixed. The case of NLS is a bit more special. Even though it is possible to build all software without gettext, there are some that don't bother and either build a static version into their library or the port forces the dependency. The use case of WITHOUT_NLS is still valid, even when installation is forced by package foo, package bar that honors the flag will have no dependency on gettext. This means that gettext can be deinstalled when foo is deinstalled. This value shouldn't be underestimated as often I'm looking at a piece of software, don't like it and go look for the next. Also, if there's automagical detection schemes in ports you know of that do not respect WITHOUT_NLS, please file PR's for them or send me the list. It is one of my pet-peeves to get rid of those. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
