Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:24:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, obrien@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice Makefile Message-ID: <199704190954.TAA29956@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199704190949.CAA01421@blimp.mimi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Apr 19, 97 02:49:58 am"
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Satoshi Asami stands accused of saying: > * > Display pkg/MESSAGE for port users (as apposed to package users). > * > * Is this the "right" way to do this, or should it be done by bsd.port.mk? > * (Asking for my own reference) > > As a policy, bsd.port.mk doesn't run any of the scripts in pkg/ during > installation. There are too many of them, some of which run twice, > and there just aren't enough hooks in the framework to put them in. > Also it's sometimes not obvious exactly when they should be run (there > are already so many things done in _PORT_USE). Um, is MESSAGE meant to be a script? I had assumed it was just a flat text file. > Satoshi -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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