HAVE_GNOME vs. bsd.ports.options.mk

[Eitan Adler]

On 10 October 2012 06:49, Michael Gmelin <freebsd at 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