Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:25:11 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: /usr/local/share/mk ? Message-ID: <20070201202511.GA74029@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070201122011.B84181@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20070201111727.B83474@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201192051.GA72926@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070201113720.D83474@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201194417.GA73296@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070201122011.B84181@xorpc.icir.org>
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:20:11PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:37:20AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> ...
> > > Now, this may well be a one-of-a-kind case calling for an ad-hoc
> > > solution, but if all we need is accept to use ${PREFIX}/share/mk
> > > for third-party .mk files, this seems a better way to handle
> > > the problem.
> >=20
> > After >10 years you are apparently the first person to want such a
> > feature, so this suggests the application is limited :)
>=20
> possibly, yes. Or maybe there were other applications solved with
> other hacks - e.g. (randomly browsing in /usr/share/mk), do the
> following really belong there:
>=20
> bsd.info.mk - building GNU Info hypertext system
> bsd.snmpmod.mk - building modules for the SNMP daemon bsnmpd
>=20
> They don't seem to be a part of the 'base' system unlike all
> the others.
? Those are both used by components of the base.
> So... there is not a recursive INSTALL, maybe nobody asked for it,
> but certainly we have a lot of replicated constructs in the
> ports' makefiles, and some port maintainers with a lot of patience :)
OK, but I don't see what this has to do with your proposal.
Kris
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