Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 02:12:53 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions Message-ID: <200605090212.53269.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <op.s887dzot9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <20060508200926.GA6005@daemons.gr> <20060508213819.GC73976@daemons.gr> <op.s887dzot9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Tuesday 09 May 2006 00:28, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 08 May 2006 16:38:19 -0500, Sideris Michael <msid@daemons.gr> > > wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:24:51PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > <snip> > > >> Also, I'd like to see all the known bugs in OPTIONS fixed, before we > >> impose it on all the people. > > > > Of course they are not going to convert automagically, but if people are > > never willing to > > convert them, then they will never convert. > > Pav is right, it's one of reason I refused to convert any of my ports to > use OPTIONS. Also, the OPTIONS has some limited. I don't like to be > downgrade and limited by default. Once, all of known bugs are fixed and > get a lot better then I shall accept the convert. The truth is that I > always and still think that OPTIONS doesn't solve anything. > > As for improvement suggest, I always want our ports tree to merge two > prefixes (LOCALBASE/X11BASE) into a prefix. It's a big task. A simple hard link to start with? Would that leave many problems (name clashes?) I also wanted to see this LOCALBASE/X11BASE go since forever. It complicates quite a many ports needlessly (includes in both local and X11R6 trees etc). Cheers, Dan > > A bit OT: I have wrote cports.sh[1] that will running portlint on all > ports that maintain by same person. I am hoping to clean up all of gnome@ > ports when I am finishing w/ my final lab/exam on this week > (Tuesday/Thursday). > > [1] http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portstools/cports.sh > > Cheers, > Mezz > > > Sideris Michael.
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