Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:30:58 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Stanislav Sedov <ssedov@mbsd.msk.ru>, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD.local.dist - share/locale Message-ID: <op.teun9wz99aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420608242224w4759fb82y54687d9bf49ebf61@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420608240626g7f3756c9g8754d7a437c5fd25@mail.gmail.com> <op.tesirrx09aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <cb5206420608240750y374ba12es2afbe254acf126cc@mail.gmail.com> <op.tessa2d69aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <cb5206420608242224w4759fb82y54687d9bf49ebf61@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:24:08 -0500, Andrew Pantyukhin = <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 8/25/06, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:50:52 -0500, Andrew Pantyukhin >> <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> > On 8/24/06, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:26:53 -0500, Andrew Pantyukhin >> >> <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> 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. > > Okay, another example. Like Stanislav said, imagine you've > installed gnomehier into PREFIX=3DA and now you're installing > gfoo into PREFIX=3DB (A!=3DB). How will gnomehier ensure that > when both gfoo and gnomehier are deinstalled, nothing is left > behind? Okay, good point. I haven't check in your four suggests again.... So... = I = was thinking about maybe can do something like what we (FreeBSD GNOME = Team) did with INSTALLS_OMF in bsd.gnome.mk (747 line). Tweak it then pu= t = it under USE_GETTEXT or create a new one called INSTALLS_LOCALE. I think= , = it should works very well. 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
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