Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:39:00 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/ghostview/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <199602010839.AAA02132@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <4731.823163544@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* Actually, not *completely* useless. You know we have an @option * directive for doing an in-place extract, right? * * @option extract-in-place * @cwd /usr/local * bin/emacs * lib/... * * Would, for example, turn the bloated emacs package into something not * requiring any temporary space to extract.. I think in this case it's * not so much a question of useless options as it is undocumented * ones. :-) * * The following @cwd is mandatory with extract-in-place. You aren't * allowed to override the prefix of an extract-in-place package. Wow, extract-in-place! Didn't know that! BTW, I know @cwd is not completely useless, it is still required for things like multi-tree packages (e.g., ImageMagick). But for most ports, @cwd, @mode, @owner etc. are not necessary and just confuse new porters. Some day I'll go through the entire ports tree and get rid of all of them.... :) Satoshi
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