Subject: Re: *_OPTIONS for package options
To: Juan RP <xtraeme@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/24/2004 15:36:08
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:27:31AM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> > # include SASL2 support in packages that support it
> > PKG_OPTIONS+=3D sasl
> >=20
> > # include openldap support in packages ...
> > PKG_OPTIONS+=3D openldap
> >=20
> > or something similar. what do you think?
>=20
> That sounds better than Johnny's suggestion IMO :)
>=20
> But how do you know which category will use every package? I think that w=
e'll
> have to use something like:
>=20
> PKG_OPTIONS+=3D databases/openldap security/cyrus-sasl2
>=20
> Right? or perhaps I'm missing a way to make this automatically without
> having to specify the category.
I imagine there would be a defined list of valid _OPTIONS values
corresponding to packages that have had support for global options
added, so the category doesn't need to be exposed to the user at all -
but I'm speculating ;)
grant.
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