Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 13:06:12 -0500 (EST) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change in the Qt port. Message-ID: <XFMail.991108130612.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <19991108114522.D78826@lovett.com>
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On 08-Nov-99 Ade Lovett wrote:
> That's potentially a huge can of worms you're opening there, though.
>
> Once we have this precedent, one can easily envisage a situation where
> we have ${X11BASE}/kde, ${X11BASE}/gnome etc.. etc.. potentially
> leading to much spammage of the third level directories under X11BASE
> (and, indeed, LOCALBASE).
I've already considered this.. and you're absolutely right. However, what else
can we do? If nothing else, the KDE stuff should be moved to ${X11BASE}.
> It makes things look very messy and disorganised.
>
> Granted, it's a considerable pain for porters to hack stuff around to
> fit in with hier(7) [at a guess, a good 75% of the patches for the GNOME
> ports are exactly of this type], but it can (and should) be done.
I agree wholeheartedly.. I'm just sick of lousy Qt implementations making it
difficult to port Qt-based programs. Making patches (and then redoing them
should a Makefile.in or configure script change) is a pain in the ass. Granted,
it's not _THAT_ difficult, just seems quite an unnecessary expenditure, and can
seem like a big job when you have 10 or so patches (like gnomelibs,xemacs,etc).
I probably speak for quite a few of the porters around here..
> One of the many wonderful things about *BSD is hier(7) -- it makes
> things very easy to find -- please let's not destroy this.
Yes, I agree completely. I like its extremely meticulous organization.
> Hmm.. maybe some patches to portlint for hier(7) violations (against
> the PLIST) are in order. Kinda like a "virtual Bruce" for ports..
Sounds like a nice idea. I'm not coding that, though. ;)
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