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Date:      Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:16:51 +0200
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r364113 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg
Message-ID:  <53E3B483.7060409@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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>

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On 8/7/2014 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 <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: 

> 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 can honestly say every single one of those suggestions made me shudder.




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