gnomemeeting port fails

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Oct 4 22:20:28 PDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 00:50, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Exactly.  The meta-ports aren't for everyone.  They're for new users
> > that just want to "fire and forget."  In fact, I don't even install
> > gnome2-fifth-toe.  I just pick the ports I want, and go.  If you had to
> > have a meta-port, it's best to create your own using gnome2[-fifth-toe]
> > as a model, stick it in ports/x11, and always build that one.
> But that would be quite inefficient: You did all the work and I
> do it again.

What work, it's a meta-port?

> What about some mechanism that allows me to place a kind of
> gnome-config file in my root directory, containing lines like
> WITHOUT_GNOMEMEETING=YES
> WITHOUT_BALSA=YES
> ???
> So everyone could easily stay up to date using the metaports and
> save build-time as well.

I don't want to add a flag for every port.  Again, if you don't like the
default meta-ports, don't use them.  I don't.

Joe

> 
> Uli.
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