[nycbug-talk] ports. . .

[Bjorn Nelson]

George,

On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:53 PM, George R. wrote:
>
> If it was just me commenting on it, it wouldn't really be a NYCBUG  
> site would it?  Not to mention pretty limited ;-) . . .  and the  
> notion of port build options would be useful, good point.
>
> The intent would be to make it an open forum for NYCBUG people, as  
> everyone has their really awesome ports that they can't live  
> without, that so many others probably aren't aware of.  It seems  
> that the different port systems of each BSD follow the same  
> categories (audio, sysutils, etc), so we could group by that.
>
> Let's see what our www master MW thinks about this, since he's in  
> the process of overhauling the current site, and is looking to  
> launch it soon.

It sounds like a good idea.  It would be nice to have a supplement to  
sites like freshports that would be about the port from a commonplace  
viewpoint.  It took me a while to figure out you need to install php#  
extensions from their individual port directory rather then try to  
enable the option from php#-extensions.  Also, I know that make  
option has been around for a little while now, but not many port  
maintainers seem to use it.

-Bjorn
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