On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 03:30:15PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On 2013-06-07 13:40, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:46:08PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> On 2013-06-07 12:17, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 01:15:49PM +0300, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > >>>> Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>>>>> Is it possible to still show the dialog if one of those options implies > >>>>>> additional dependencies? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If not, what should those of us who do not want them installed do? > >>>>> > >>>>> make config will always show those options so you can always tune them. > >>>>> > >>>>> just make config-conditional will not fireup a new dialog automatically > >>>>> if the > >>>>> defined options are only those from the global options. > >>>> > >>>> I see. As far as I can tell though, and correct me if I'm wrong, but > >>>> 'make install' doesn't show those options. It also does not show those > >>>> options for dependent ports. Neither does 'make config-recursive'. > >>>> > >>>> Tools like portmaster will now ignore those as well during install and > >>>> reinstall. > >>>> > >>>> So, again, what are my options if I don't want dependencies to be pulled > >>>> in silently? > >>> > >>> You have no options and you never had one in the ports tree sorry. > >>> > >>> If you have a way to implement that cleanly, I'll be happy to push such > >>> features > >>> in the ports but really I see a way to do what you ask for. > >> > >> How about only suppressing the dialog if the options have been explicitly > >> set or unset in make.conf? > > > > That would be easy but is that a really desired feature? > > I can only speak for myself, but I don't see DOCS as a global option. > For some ports I want documentation, for others I don't, so I want the > dialog to show up even if DOCS is the only option. > > There doesn't seem to be a clear cut line between global and per port > options and different users have different opinions about it. > > Can you make it such that config-conditional suppresses the dialog > if all options have been explicitly set or unset either through > command line, make.conf or optionsfile? Or in other words only show > the dialog if one of the options falls back to a default value (e.g. > when a new option has been added to a port and that option has not > been set globally). > > I think that would allow anyone to set/unset any option globally and > not be bothered by dialogs without enforcing that view on everybody > else. You wouldn't need GLOBAL_OPTIONS any more then. >
Ok so I misunderstood at first. That looks not easy to do, and I'm a bit borred with hacking the options. If someone do something in that direction, I'll be happy to review and help, but honnestly I don't plan to do it myself. regads, Bapt
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