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Date:      Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:29:48 +0100
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, "Vlad K." <vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com>
Cc:        Freebsd Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports' tips and gotchas
Message-ID:  <586BDF8C.5090504@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <D2DCC023-1EBB-4444-AB59-81315EF239C0@adamw.org>
References:  <c755791c3da66ff1329202cfa3bce52a@acheronmedia.com> <D2DCC023-1EBB-4444-AB59-81315EF239C0@adamw.org>

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Adam Weinberger wrote on 2017/01/03 17:43:

> pkg-message needs to contain only essential information,

But it is not true and never was. pkg-message always contains many other 
informations.
Or are these really essential?

Message from postgresql94-client-9.4.10_1:
The PostgreSQL port has a collection of "side orders":

postgresql-docs
   For all of the html documentation

p5-Pg
   A perl5 API for client access to PostgreSQL databases.

postgresql-tcltk
   If you want tcl/tk client support.

postgresql-jdbc
   For Java JDBC support.

postgresql-odbc
   For client access from unix applications using ODBC as access
   method. Not needed to access unix PostgreSQL servers from Win32
   using ODBC. See below.

ruby-postgres, py-PyGreSQL
   For client access to PostgreSQL databases using the ruby & python
   languages.

postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl & postgresql-plruby
   For using perl5, tcl & ruby as procedural languages.

postgresql-contrib
   Lots of contributed utilities, postgresql functions and
   datatypes. There you find pg_standby, pgcrypto and many other cool
   things.



> otherwise end-users will start to ignore them.

Yes, it applies for PHP extensions spam on each `pkg upgrade` where I 
get about 20 messages in a row like this:

Message from php56-zlib-5.6.29:
****************************************************************************

The following line has been added to your /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zlib.ini
configuration file to automatically load the installed extension:

extension=zlib.so

Totally useless messages taking about 150 lines...
Extensions were always automatically enabled on installation before 
converting from one php.ini file to many small files.

Miroslav Lachman



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