In article <20051120151724.GA755@silence.homedns.org> Klaus wrote:
: while thinking about conversion from legacy variables (like USE_INET6)
: to the options framework I found no way for pkgsrc to indicate a global
: preference for specific options.

  Currently, there is none.

: So if I understand all this correctly, instead of a global setting
: somewhere in pkgsrc/mk/ responsibility of setting certain options the
: pkgsrc project wants to endorse (like "inet6") will reside at the package
: level and during conversion I _have_ to include "inet6" in
: PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS?

  When designing the various ways to select/deselect options, I did
not foresee the need of globally selecting options, so there is no way
to do so.  However, this clearly demonstrates the need for such a
feature.

  I would add a new variable PKG_GLOBALLY_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS, settable
by bsd.pkg.mk or the various platform-specific files, which lists
options that will be enabled by default in all packages which support
them.  This may be overridden by PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS for a specific
package by listing the option with a leading `-'.

  So the suggested options will be the options listed in
PKG_GLOBALLY_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS, unless overridden by the packages'
PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS, plus the options listed in
PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS.

  Comments?

						yours,
						dillo