Run-time auto-detection is harmful for packages

[Boris Samorodov]

"Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net> writes:

> You already can do that. WITHOUT_GNOME=yes or WITHOUT_GNOME=esound.

Thanks for the tip!

>> 2. Create slave ports to build (non-default so far) packages for those
>>    who want to use packages and were unfortunate to install packages
>>    used for auto-detection by other packages.
>>
>>    As an example here may be a slave port audio/libmikmod-esound with
>>    CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-esd at makefile.
>
> No thanks, create a slave port that will have CONFLICTS with master is
> a  worst solution.

Can you give some arguments? I don't see a strong ones...


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