Hi,

I just edited my mk.conf and added a new variable PKGSRC_OPTIONS.

PKGSRC_OPTIONS+= developer
PKGSRC_OPTIONS+= quiet
PKGSRC_OPTIONS+= batch
PKGSRC_OPTIONS+= unprivileged

I then iterated through mk.conf and set my other variables dependent on 
these global options. And it felt good. For example, because I'm doing 
an unprivileged build, I had this:

.if !empty(PKGSRC_OPTIONS:Munprivileged)
BINOWN= roland
BINGRP= users
MANOWN= ${BINOWN}
MANGRP= ${BINGRP}
DOCOWN= ...
...
.endif

Some days ago I complained that there are so many different variables 
(at least 819) that the build process depends on. Therefore I made some 
of these superfluous:

.if !empty(PKGSRC_OPTIONS:Mdeveloper)
PKG_DEVELOPER= yes
.endif

.if !empty(PKGSRC_OPTIONS:Mbatch)
BATCH= yes
.endif

An interesting question is whether a particular option would belong to 
PKGSRC_OPTIONS or PKG_OPTIONS.

Any comments?

Roland