On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:35 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > IMO, if a user explicitly requested feature Foo and Foo cannot be
> > > supported, we should fail rather than ignore the user request.
>
> I completely agree with this. The usual behaviour I see that works well
> is:
>
> no-parameter supplied:
> Feature enables if possible
>
> --without | --disable:
> Feature does not enable and does not probe for dependencies
>
> --with | --enable:
> Feature enables and probes for dependencies, any missing dependencies
> are fatal.
The current code supports the last two. Kinkie suggested the first one.
Cheers,
Alex.
Received on Wed Oct 15 2008 - 01:52:39 MDT
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