Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:45:46 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: will@physics.purdue.edu, portmgr@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg-comment && pkg-descr && distinfo Message-ID: <3B210F4A.EA907ACF@DougBarton.net> References: <200106072015.f57KFLo22248@mail.uic-in.net> <3B2078DA.BD47A1C8@DougBarton.net> <3B209177.5D729F28@FreeBSD.org>
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First off, I really don't appreciate you adding ports@ to the distribution
list for this e-mail. I wrote my post with a certain target audience in
mind. If I'd known you were going to expand the audience to a public forum
I might have phrased things differently. In any case ....
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> You are missing one big point, that makes your arguments very poor. It is the fact
> that Makefiles aren't really intended to be used like that.
Makefiles are a tool. They are to be used as we choose to use them. Yes,
they are better or worse for any given project, but this one could easily
be made to work.
> Text description is
> functionally different from the "engine" provided by makefile, so merging it into one
> file would be an ugly hack that would obscure the things beyong the reasonable point.
> It is similar if someone would argue that there should be only one source file for
> each utility in our src/ tree, or even that source files and manpages are to be merged
> with Makefiles to save large number of inodes. If someone can't bear ports tree and
> want to save inodes that he/she should really use packages instead.
>
> Perhaps at some of the future, when we will move away from Makefiles (to xml or
> anything else) this issue could be reconsidered, but now it is not sounds reasonably
> for me.
If you are dead set against this, no problem. The responsibility then
falls on you to come up with a plan to scale the ports system past its
current size. It's not like I need any new projects.
Good luck,
Doug
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