From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Jan 3 17:29:52 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249F8C9D305 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:29:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDBA41FD5 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EF728417; Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:29:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from illbsd.quip.test (ip-86-49-16-209.net.upcbroadband.cz [86.49.16.209]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A54F428429; Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:29:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Ports' tips and gotchas To: Adam Weinberger , "Vlad K." Cc: Freebsd Ports References: From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: <586BDF8C.5090504@quip.cz> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:29:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:29:52 -0000 Adam Weinberger wrote on 2017/01/03 17:43: > pkg-message needs to contain only essential information, But it is not true and never was. pkg-message always contains many other informations. Or are these really essential? Message from postgresql94-client-9.4.10_1: The PostgreSQL port has a collection of "side orders": postgresql-docs For all of the html documentation p5-Pg A perl5 API for client access to PostgreSQL databases. postgresql-tcltk If you want tcl/tk client support. postgresql-jdbc For Java JDBC support. postgresql-odbc For client access from unix applications using ODBC as access method. Not needed to access unix PostgreSQL servers from Win32 using ODBC. See below. ruby-postgres, py-PyGreSQL For client access to PostgreSQL databases using the ruby & python languages. postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl & postgresql-plruby For using perl5, tcl & ruby as procedural languages. postgresql-contrib Lots of contributed utilities, postgresql functions and datatypes. There you find pg_standby, pgcrypto and many other cool things. > otherwise end-users will start to ignore them. Yes, it applies for PHP extensions spam on each `pkg upgrade` where I get about 20 messages in a row like this: Message from php56-zlib-5.6.29: **************************************************************************** The following line has been added to your /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zlib.ini configuration file to automatically load the installed extension: extension=zlib.so Totally useless messages taking about 150 lines... Extensions were always automatically enabled on installation before converting from one php.ini file to many small files. Miroslav Lachman