Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:30:58 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r364113 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg Message-ID: <53E3B7D2.2020300@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <53e0f0ad.5847.5faaa40c@svn.freebsd.org> <15D20738-E215-4F78-A9CC-5A635D488498@adamw.org> <20140806053647.GL17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <7D423316-97A3-44B5-A427-4027EF61FACE@adamw.org> <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 08/07/14 19:05, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:50:49 -0400 Adam Weinberger wrote: >> On 6 Aug, 2014, at 1:36, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: >>>> On 5 Aug, 2014, at 10:56, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>>> - Directories can be listed in the plist like files they will be >>>>> considered like @dirrmtry >>>> >>>> That one is exciting! Do they still need to appear in the same way >>>> (i.e. at the end of the plist, in reverse-order)? >>> >>> pkg never had this limitation :) >> >> I am constantly amazed at the tremendous progress that pkgng has >> achieved. The problem is, a lot of these improvements aren’t documented >> anywhere, so it’s hard to know what new paradigms we have at our >> disposal! >> >> Although I suppose that until pkg_install is fully deprecated (< 1 >> month now, yay!), it’s best that we not go crazy with incompatible >> plist changes. > > We should probably have a discussion in September about what to do > with the newly acquired freedom. For instance, there are way too many > tiny files in the ports tree that slow down subversion operations and > take up way too much disk space (smallest file size on default FreeBSD > install these days is 4KiB). I think we should move distinfo into the > Makefile, combine all pkg-* files into one Pkgfile (using ucl syntax > maybe?) and combine patches per feature instead of one patch per file. > I'd like to get rid of the files directory too, at least in most cases. > I'd live the pkg-plist alone. It's quite handy for grepping, and most ports have medium sized plists. For tiny plists we already have Makefile variables. -- Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
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