From owner-svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 17:31:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3220B805; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from winston.madpilot.net (winston.madpilot.net [78.47.75.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98462B96; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from winston.madpilot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3hTcDh51gWzFfCy; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:31:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from winston.madpilot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by winston.madpilot.net (winston.madpilot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f3Heuo0MOwMq; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tommy.madpilot.net (micro.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by winston.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53E3B7D2.2020300@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:30:58 +0200 From: Guido Falsi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tijl Coosemans , Adam Weinberger Subject: Re: svn commit: r364113 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg References: <53e0f0ad.5847.5faaa40c@svn.freebsd.org> <15D20738-E215-4F78-A9CC-5A635D488498@adamw.org> <20140806053647.GL17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <7D423316-97A3-44B5-A427-4027EF61FACE@adamw.org> <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin , svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:31:09 -0000 On 08/07/14 19:05, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:50:49 -0400 Adam Weinberger wrote: >> On 6 Aug, 2014, at 1:36, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>>> On 5 Aug, 2014, at 10:56, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>>>> - Directories can be listed in the plist like files they will be >>>>> considered like @dirrmtry >>>> >>>> That one is exciting! Do they still need to appear in the same way >>>> (i.e. at the end of the plist, in reverse-order)? >>> >>> pkg never had this limitation :) >> >> I am constantly amazed at the tremendous progress that pkgng has >> achieved. The problem is, a lot of these improvements aren’t documented >> anywhere, so it’s hard to know what new paradigms we have at our >> disposal! >> >> Although I suppose that until pkg_install is fully deprecated (< 1 >> month now, yay!), it’s best that we not go crazy with incompatible >> plist changes. > > We should probably have a discussion in September about what to do > with the newly acquired freedom. For instance, there are way too many > tiny files in the ports tree that slow down subversion operations and > take up way too much disk space (smallest file size on default FreeBSD > install these days is 4KiB). I think we should move distinfo into the > Makefile, combine all pkg-* files into one Pkgfile (using ucl syntax > maybe?) and combine patches per feature instead of one patch per file. > I'd like to get rid of the files directory too, at least in most cases. > I'd live the pkg-plist alone. It's quite handy for grepping, and most ports have medium sized plists. For tiny plists we already have Makefile variables. -- Guido Falsi