putting HESIOD, Appletalk and IPX on notice
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Aug 5 20:50:49 GMT 2005
In message <20050805203901.GA88453 at xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:
>> Cool. I think the standard is "WANT_FOO", but that is a detail. It
>> may be an idea to make these default to "off" in releases, but keep
>> them in HEAD until they become too painful to care about. That
>> would probably handle the CYB factor the best.
>
>Ports uses WITH_*/WITHOUT_* for user control knobs, and WANT_* is for
>internal port use only.
I can see a benefit from being orthogonal to ports usage in this, so
I think the YES_FOO is actually the right thing.
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