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Date:      Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:00:52 +0900
From:      Koichiro Iwao <meta@freebsd.org>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: beff5e37902f - main - sysutils/mackerel-agent: Update to 0.71.2
Message-ID:  <5461673c056632e25c4f64c99e597983@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210530071948.jzjlbgepvhexf35l@aching.in.mat.cc>
References:  <202105291644.14TGiYHK003156@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20210530071948.jzjlbgepvhexf35l@aching.in.mat.cc>

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Matt wrote:
> DIST_SUBDIR should only be used when the distribution files are not
> versionned or conflict with others, in this case, I don't see any 
> reason
> to use it.
> 
> Moreover, with all those distribution files, there is a good chance 
> that
> some other port needs the same file, using DIST_SUBDIR makes it
> impossible to share those files, and forces users to fetch the same
> things multiple times, somewhat defeating the reason of the distfiles
> directory.

Understood. Thanks for the advice. That is reasonable not to use
DIST_SUBDIR. I felt a single port putting many files directly under
distfiles directory looks clutter but your point is quite correct.

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meta <meta@FreeBSD.org>



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