From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 21:00:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A378D16A4DF; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:00:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from centrmmtao01.cox.net (centrmmtao01.cox.net [70.168.83.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3EF43D55; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:00:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by centrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060824210009.CIJL23821.centrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:00:09 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id Dx071V00e4iy4EG0000000 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:00:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:00:35 -0500 To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (Linux) Cc: FreeBSD Ports , Stanislav Sedov , portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD.local.dist - share/locale X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:00:39 -0000 On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:50:52 -0500, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 8/24/06, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:26:53 -0500, Andrew Pantyukhin >> wrote: >> >> > I can't help thinking that the way we're trying to deal with >> > locale directories is far from optimal. IMHO, there are >> > several ways to improve the state of things: >> >> I think the current how we handle locale is a bit silly, so I personal >> in >> favor of create localehier like misc/gnomehier than four suggested >> below.. >> Honestly, I would be more rather to put mtree that is for ports in >> somewhere of /usr/ports/ than /etc/mtree/ that way any version of >> FreeBSD >> won't have any of left over directories problem. > > It's a good idea, but we're back at the second question - > what if someone fancies to pkg_delete -xf gnomehier? > There will be no way to get a clean system after that > other than by reinstalling gnomehier and deleting it after > all the ports requiring it. Why would someone want to delete it when it is need? Same things with why would someone delete library when apps need it? I think it's not our problem as I haven't seen anyone do that with gnomehier. > And in case we ignore it and say that one should not > deinstall a foo-dep before foo, then the whole point of > the latest locale-related pkg-plist fixes is lost. I don't see any problem as you can install gnomehier back in, same as with put library back in. Unless, I don't get it. Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org