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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2018 08:17:49 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@FreeBSD.org>, Fernando Apestegu?a <fernape@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r470725 - in head/textproc/tkdiff: . files
Message-ID:  <20180524081749.GB88772@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180524065529.rtcmylbz5qtnupnx@atuin.in.mat.cc>
References:  <201805232159.w4NLxYrK000782@repo.freebsd.org> <1527143137.2894038.1383018096.245EB176@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180524065529.rtcmylbz5qtnupnx@atuin.in.mat.cc>

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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 08:55:29AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 06:25:37AM +0000, Tobias Kortkamp wrote:
> > 2. print/jabref, misc/mc, editors/openoffice-devel, etc. seem to have
> >    binary files in files/*.png. Can we add new ones or is it forbidden now?
> >    It seems weird to have to base64 encode icons and decode them during the
> >    build.
> 
> I think it would be better to keep binary files out of the ports tree.
> It's probably as easy to drop them in LOCAL/user, either individually or
> in an archive.

+1.  Binary files are PITA to deal with SVN (heck, even UTF-8 text ones
are PITA!).

./danfe



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