Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:47:03 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of pkg-comment (Was: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ?) Message-ID: <3B1AE897.929B8D2C@DougBarton.net> References: <20010601225706.A36653@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> <20010602135045.A682@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <3B19A96D.5806D54C@DougBarton.net> <20010603005412.F59563@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010603130120.D72002@FreeBSD.org>
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Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:54:12AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > Come on now Doug! Think about it. There's no easy way to collapse them > > all, unless you'd like to take away "make makesum" (and before you say > > it could be scripted: NO! :-). Well, it can easily be scripted, so "you have to give up 'make makesum'" is not a valid argument, whether you want to accept it or not. > > Though I guess putting DESCR in the > > Makefile wouldn't be so hard... hmm... > > Agreed. I am now looking at syncing our ports tree as much as possible > with NetBSD (and by association, OpenBSD), so that as and when OpenPackages > happens, we will be able to call upon (though not necessarily get :), > the combined experience of the ports teams of all three BSDs, which in > of itself is a good PR exercise. I don't follow your argument here. If there is a big change coming to support open packages anyway, what good does synching with the other bsd's do now? In my mind it's much more useful to make the big bold change that'll actually do us a lot of good, and possibly demonstrate to the openpackages people the benefits of the new system. > Those changes are two-fold: > > 1. collapse pkg-comment into Makefile/COMMENT= > pkg-descr remains as is As was already demonstrated, collapsing this one file doesn't save us enough to justify the amount of work involved. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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