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Date:      Sun, 25 May 2008 18:20:54 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/conky Makefile ports/sysutils/conky-awesome Makefile pkg-descr ports/sysutils/conky-awesome/files patch-src_conky.c
Message-ID:  <1211754054.69646.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080525215334.GA66430@tirith.brixandersen.dk>
References:  <200805251720.m4PHKtRD026886@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080525215334.GA66430@tirith.brixandersen.dk>

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On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 23:53 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 05:20:55PM +0000, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > marcus      2008-05-25 17:20:54 UTC
> >=20
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> >     sysutils             Makefile=20
> >     sysutils/conky       Makefile=20
> >     sysutils/conky-awesome Makefile pkg-descr=20
> >   Added files:
> >     sysutils/conky-awesome/files patch-src_conky.c=20
> >   Log:
> >   Add sysutils/conky-awesome after a repocopy from sysutils/conky.
> >   Conky-awesome is the conky X-based system monitor ported to the aweso=
me
> >   window manager.
> >  =20
> >   Submitted by:   adamw
> >   Conky diffs approved by:        novel
>=20
> Does this really warrant a port of its own? Couldn't it just be a KNOB
> in sysutils/conky?

This kind of changes (requiring new patches and a new pkg-descr)
typically have warranted slave ports in the past (e.g. we do this a lot
with language ports).  I didn't see a problem with this.  Additionally,
it offloads the work of maintaining the conky-awesome changes from novel
onto adamw.

Joe

>=20
> Brix
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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