[22490] trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile

[Randall Wood]

Is this +no_startupitem variant really smart?

I recently had a request to add a +without_startupitem variant to a  
port I maintain and rejected the request; since startupitems simply  
enable a port to be started at boot time, but do not cause a port to  
be booted at start time, it simply seems stupid to deliberately  
cripple a server port such that a user would have to reinstall it if  
they wanted to start the port at boot time later.

BTW: If the variant is to be retained, can it be named  
+without_startupitem instead?

On 2 Mar 2007, at 16:51, source_changes at macosforge.org wrote:

> Revision 22490 Author blair at macports.org Date 2007-03-02 13:51:15  
> -0800 (Fri, 02 Mar 2007) Log MessageAdd a +no_startupitem variant  
> that prevents the automatic startup of the Apache web  
> server.Modified Paths
> trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile
> Diff
> Modified: trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile (22489 => 22490)---  
> trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile	2007-03-02 20:42:45 UTC (rev  
> 22489) +++ trunk/dports/www/apache2/Portfile	2007-03-02 21:51:15  
> UTC (rev 22490) @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ configure.args-append --with- 
> mpm=event } +variant no_startupitem { +	startupitem.create	no +} +  
> startupitem.create	yes startupitem.start	\ "\[ -x ${prefix}/apache2/ 
> bin/apachectl \] && ${prefix}/apache2/bin/apachectl start > /dev/ 
> null" @@ -112,4 +116,3 @@ "\[ -r ${prefix}/apache2/logs/httpd.pid  
> \] && ${prefix}/apache2/bin/apachectl stop > /dev/null"  
> startupitem.restart	\ "\[ -r ${prefix}/apache2/logs/httpd.pid \] &&  
> ${prefix}/apache2/bin/apachectl restart > /dev/null" -
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Randall Wood
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