Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:34:45 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@mail-in.net> To: ade@FreeBSD.ORG, will@physics.purdue.edu Cc: DougB@DougBarton.net, ernst@jollem.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_Getting_rid_of_pkg-comment_(Was:_Supporting_pkg-plist.gz_=3F)?= Message-ID: <200106032034.f53KYio55159@mail.uic-in.net> In-Reply-To: <20010603130120.D72002@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:01:20 -0500, Ade Lovett wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:54:12AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > Come on now Doug! Think about it. There's no easy way to collapse the= m > > all, unless you'd like to take away "make makesum" (and before you say > > it could be scripted: NO! :-). Though I guess putting DESCR in the > > Makefile wouldn't be so hard... hmm... > = > Agreed. I am now looking at syncing our ports tree as much as possible > with NetBSD (and by association, OpenBSD), so that as and when OpenPackag= es > happens, we will be able to call upon (though not necessarily get :), > the combined experience of the ports teams of all three BSDs, which in > of itself is a good PR exercise. > = > Those changes are two-fold: > = > =091. collapse pkg-comment into Makefile/COMMENT=3D > =09 pkg-descr remains as is While I agree that we should get rid of pkg-comment, but still not convinced that it should move into Makefile. So far, I did not see any good arguments for it other than "it is how NetBSD did". Frankly speaking it is a very poor reason, because our ports systems already differ significantly, so benefit is quite neglible. IMO, more logical would be to merge it with pkg-descr to (a) keep all documentation in the one place, thus simplifying its update when necessary and (b) prevent overloading Makefile with yet another mandatory variable. > =092. implement true versioning support for dependencies > = > I have a scratch box ready to go with this, and am soliciting help. That would be really nice. You can count on me - feel free to contact me when you need a help. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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