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<ul>
<li><a href="#p-ports-uid">Automatic registering of UID and GID</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-ports-cleanup-use">Cleanup of USE and WITH variables</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-ports-comp43tty">COMPAT_43TTY</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-ports-options">Improvements of OPTIONS</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-ports-pkgtools">Package tools improvements</a></li>
</ul>
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<p>Perhaps ports that have UIDs registered in the handbook could also
be registered in a file inside /usr/ports, which the framework would
use in UID creation requests.</p>
<p><strong>Requirement</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strong knowledge of shell and make code.</li>
<li>A basic understanding of the inner workings of the ports tree.</li>
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<hr>
<a name="p-ports-comp43tty"></a>
<h2>COMPAT_43TTY</h2>
<p>Some ports may break when removing COMPAT_43TTY from the kernel
configuration since they assume old ioctl's when they identify
FreeBSD. The goal of this entry is to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identify the ports which behave like this. A tinderbox setup is probably
needed. Using grep to find "#include &lt;sgtty.h&gt;" might also be a good
start.</li>
<li>Fix breakages and send patches upstream.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Knowledge of autotools.</li>
<li>Time and patience.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<a name="p-ports-options"></a>
<h2>Improvements of OPTIONS</h2>
<p>The current OPTIONS infrastructure can be improved in several ways.</p>
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useful for entering variables that need real values.</li>
<li>The possibility for mutually exclusive OPTIONS.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirement</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strong knowledge of shell and make code.</li>
<li>A basic understanding of the inner workings of the ports tree.</li>
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of ports, could do with a code cleanup or maybe even a rewrite from
scratch. Some features of the ports tree are not supported by the pkg_* tools,
e.g. versioned dependencies.</p>
<p><strong>Requirement</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strong knowledge of C code.</li>
<li>A basic understanding of the inner workings of the ports tree.</li>