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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:30:56 +0200
From:      Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
To:        Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need help with new port math/ggobi
Message-ID:  <a0777e081001281130vb0c3cdet47ae13ebe5f49c87@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B608D82.1040901@gwdg.de>
References:  <4AFD2B5F.3070304@gwdg.de> <4B608D82.1040901@gwdg.de>

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> 1. The port needs libraries gtk2 and libxml2.
>   Is it ok how the port ensures they are installed?
>
Ports has a predefined method of doing this: USE_GNOME= gtk20 libxml2


> 3. ggobi authors suggest to create /etc/xdg/ggobi/ for resource file.
>   A better place would be /usr/local/etc/xdg/ggobi/, I think.
>   What do you think? How could this be coded in the port?
>
Most programs I've seen are PREFIX safe. It is almost always better to use
$PREFIX. The only exception I've ever seen is something like perl which many
broken programs use.

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> 5. When deinstalling, should we try to remove dirs share/applications
>   and etc/xdg? (Mostly they are used by other ports, too)
>
There is a feature "@dirrmtry" which will only remove the directory if no
one is using it



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