Hi, I'd like to suggest to put in the porter's handbook, bsd licenced alternatives to commonly ported gnu-based dependencies. For instance, to suggest the [radio] option of "OPENSSL" when the program calls on "GNUTLS". It would be great to optionally also have listed in the handbook, other alternatives to OPENSSL and GNUTLS like NSS, POLARSSL and WOLFSSL. If anyone is unsure of what I'm refering to, or the description of the Makefile code, please do a make config and see the "Makefile" on "/usr/ports/ftp/curl" to see the possible options. Also, I've tried to say this before, but perhaps miscommunicated or been misunderstood. DEVD is the bsd replacement of gnu's HAL. Type make config and see the Makefile in /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server, to see the option of DEVD or HAL. This suggestion to include this is because program dependencies still depend on HAL with no option for (native) DEVD.
I'm not sure which section of the porter's handbook these suggestions would go in. Perhaps a part of this can also be mentioned the Linuxism's section. It is important since many dependencies are ported from gnu/linux, without explanation of their equivalent bsd programs for porters to make the best use of it. I hope this makes sense. Thank you in advance. I've tried to send this email earlier, but it showed blank in the daily digest. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
