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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:34:44 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Cc:arch"@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Subject:   Re: ports.conf
Message-ID:  <20010824143444.B83171@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010823143844.A18197@dragon.nuxi.com>; from dev-null@NUXI.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:38:44PM -0700
References:  <20010823210729.A95484@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010823135941.B4003@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010824001737.B1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010823143844.A18197@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:38:44PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:17:37AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > I think he meant 'maintained in the ports/ tree' just as make.conf
> > is 'maintained in the src/ tree', that is, there is a src/etc/make.conf
> > file with evolving defaults.  Yes, ports.conf should probably live
> > in /etc or some such place, but I, too, think that it should be
> > maintained in the ports tree, quite possibly in ports/Mk/.
>=20
> How are you suggesting ports.conf get into /etc?  A `make world' cannot
> depend on having a populated /usr/ports/Mk.

Same way /etc/make.conf gets into /etc.

Kris

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