On 10 October 2012 06:49, Michael Gmelin <free...@grem.de> wrote: ... > I had that turned on by default to make sure > the port behaves exactly like it did before conversion to OptionsNG > (it's not my lawn, you know).
Hehe, this is good thing. Normally you want to try to replicate existing behavior. > The committer changed that to be off by > default, since this is a better solution for package building and I > agree with him. But... in this case the previous behavior was "buggy" so it had to be changed. > Also note that there are a lot of ports that use either techniques for > auto detection (e.g. checking for the existence of libraries to bring > in functionality) and that those should be covered as well - simply not > allowing auto detection will massively reduce functionality, so using > an OPTION to allow it might be the way to go. I think AUTODETECT might I agree. P.S. I never did properly thank you for all those OptionsNG PRs. Most of them went in without any changes at all, which is unusual. Thanks! -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ 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"
