Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:33:44 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Dmitry Marakasov" <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0812131133g3956eea7n6830eefde3532a4f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081212102905.GC7422@hades.panopticon> References: <20081209181354.GB29817@hades.panopticon> <20081209222042.GC29817@hades.panopticon> <8763lsi10m.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081210181125.GA86341@hades.panopticon> <87zlj3heor.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081210223522.GA6367@hades.panopticon> <87vdtrhb6r.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081211082325.GA6167@hades.panopticon> <op.ulz6y1ae9aq2h7@localhost> <20081212102905.GC7422@hades.panopticon>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote: > * Jeremy Messenger (mezz7@cox.net) wrote: > >>> So if I understand correctly, you're proposing to only use dynamic >>> plist generation for the ports that support it without modification, >>> i.e. autotools-based? >>> >>> My opinion is that we should support the feature for all ports, or don't >>> support it at all. Only getting rid of ~5k pkg-plists is not a huge >>> accomplishment considering the mess it causes and I doubt it's worth >>> the work on adding the feature to port.mk and then rebuilding and >>> testing all affected ports. Being able to forget about pkg-plists >>> once and forever however would be a huge accomplishment and if that's >>> possible it should be done sooner or later. >> >> I object on get rid of pkg-plist. I depend on pkg-plist too much. I think >> it's important for us to keep on track where the files/directories are. > > It's useful for me too sometimes, but it's already not 100% reliable, > as some ports still generate it dynamically, some use PLIST_FILES, some > use PLIST_SUB so it's not apparent under which path and/or name the file > mentioned in plist is actually installed. Getting rid of the plist files will force a major rewrite of pkg_install. Are you really comfortable doing that :\? -Garrett
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