Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> writes:

> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:19:07PM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
>> We should make the default motif for non-opensource OSs something other
>> than openmotif.  Having a default that is not available makes little
>> sense.
>
> Btw, since openmotif is non-free, and there is an open-source alternative
> (lesstif), why don't we change the default to lesstif on all platforms?  How
> many packages do we have that don't build with x11/lesstif but do with
> x11/openmotif?  AFAIK only wip/jdk14 and wip/jdk15 (I haven't verified this,
> but the Makefile sets MOTIF_TYPE=openmotif).  

This is a good argument, but I think we have to ask which choice
better serves the users.  (My insistence on clarity on LICENSE and
NO_*_ON_* isn't a "free software is intrinsically better" position,
but "people should be aware of licensing, and not get non-Free
software unless they have chosen to do so".)

Long ago, I corresponded with the author of a complex motify-using
program who said lesstif didn't work very well.

So perhaps add PREFER_MOTIF?=openmotify in bsd.prefs.mk, and follow
that if MOTIF_TYPE isn't set by the makefile and it's not installed.

-- 
        Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>