Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:51:42 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Proposal] Moving utility targets out of bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <3CA0990E.25246AFD@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi folks,
Earlier today when walking through PRs assigned to a portmgr@ I've
noticed that there is a quite large class of PRs proposing a new
utility targets for bsd.port.mk ("utility targets" here are targets
not used during ordinary `make package clean' process, such as
makesum, fetch-recursive etc.). Since those targets provided for
user's/developer's convinience only and don't affect
package-generation facility (bento cluster) or Joe Ordinary User, it
would be nice if we allow to ports committers to modify/extend them
without explicit portmgr@ approval.
My proposal is to move out those targets into another file (say
<bsd.port.util.mk>) and allow ports committers to play with it freely
using ordinary peer-review process. This will solve several problems
at once:
1. Number of PRs assigned to portmgr@ is reduced and hence portmgr@
could concentrate on more important things;
2. bsd.port.mk bloat is more controllable;
3. better separation of core functionality from "optional" one;
4. much shorter time between new feature proposal and its availability
to the users.
I do not see any significant drawbacks of this proposal and ready to
do actual work.
Any comments are appreciated.
Thanks!
-Maxim
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