On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:40:55AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > >Synopsis:       Avoid un-nedded steps in pkgtools/digest
> 
> > 	The package pkgtools/digest does not need the patch and configure
> > 	steps, so they can be avoided.
> 
> > +NO_PATCH=       # defined
> > +NO_CONFIGURE=   # defined
> 
> I don't see it documented in Packages.txt (but I do see in mk/bsd.pkg.mk).
> 
> If I understand this correctly, then this is just to save a little time.
> 
> So should all packages that don't have a ./configure use "NO_CONFIGURE"?
> 
> And all packages that don't have patches should use "NO_PATCH"?

I don't think these save time anymore ever since Alistair's changes to
remove many of the sub-make invocations that use to plague bsd.pkg.mk
These variables are largely obsolete.

> If so, I should send-pr this for net/gethost (no ./configure) and
> net/md-whois (no ./configure and no patches).

It's not necessary.

> What other steps can be skipped? (And where is this documented?)

packages(7)

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>