Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:57:41 +0000 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What use is WWWDIR_REL? Message-ID: <4F3200C5.90407@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <4F31EBE1.8040000@FreeBSD.org> References: <4F31EBE1.8040000@FreeBSD.org>
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Makes sense to me.
I might even see about doing the nitty gritty.
On 02/08/12 03:28, Doug Barton wrote:
> Following up to my previous post about "Why isn't WWWDIR_REL in the
> default PLIST_SUB I broke open bsd.port.mk and found this:
>=20
> PLIST_SUB+=3D DOCSDIR=3D"${DOCSDIR_REL}" \
> EXAMPLESDIR=3D"${EXAMPLESDIR_REL}" \
> DATADIR=3D"${DATADIR_REL}" \
> WWWDIR=3D"${WWWDIR_REL}" \ *******!!!!????!!!****
> ETCDIR=3D"${ETCDIR_REL}"
>=20
> So this leads me to many questions, the first and most obvious of which=
> is, what the heck good is WWWDIR_REL in the first place? I searched the=
> ports tree and found 1,063 uses of it (outside of bpm itself). 1,035 of=
> them are literals in a pkg-plist, which at this point looks completely
> useless. Of the 28 others 13 of them are PLIST_SUB related, which
> apparently can also be removed. Most of the other 15 look like mistakes=
,
> and all of them look like they can be fixed with little difficulty.
>=20
> So I'd like to propose the attached, not to be included until the
> existing uses of WWWDIR_REL are updated of course. Can anyone tell me
> why this would be a bad idea? I think being able to just use %%WWWDIR%%=
> in the plist would be a lot less confusing.
>=20
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> Doug
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