On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:

: >  - Change MKfoo=no back to NOfoo= in various Makefiles.  The behavior
: >    desired here is to override any user setting, which is precisely what
: >    NOfoo does.  (This manifests as a problem when someone sets MKMAN=yes or
: >    MKPIC=yes in mk.conf, which should be a perfectly legal action.)
:
: I really loathe those NOfoo=yes type of definitions. OK, so I have a tiny
: brain, but it really does take me a while to work out what is negative and
: what isn't.

Actually, I was going to replace them with:

NOMAN=		# defined

: I'm not sure it's going to stop any of the user errors that we've seen
: reported - can we think of a better way to do this, please? e.g.
:
: 	_MKMAN= no
:
: or something like that?

Well, I was going to go with the NOfoo names, simply because *BSD has had
these variables for ages, and it's much simpler to use them rather than
invent a new set.  (We've been keeping NOfoo for `compatibility' all this
time anyway.)

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