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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/ghostview/pkg PLIST
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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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