From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 28 19:15:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA02115 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from expresslane.ca (expresslane.ca [205.233.74.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA02105 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (james@localhost) by expresslane.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA27080; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:15:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 22:15:23 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should this port go in ? In-Reply-To: <960828191024.ZM21365@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I'm forced to agree with Chuck - I don't see where the dynamic PLIST behavior > makes sense in a port where no such dynamism is required, and anyone else > looking at this port is going to be left wondering just why it's so darn > complicated. The dynamic PLIST file is still a reasonable idea, and one I'd > use if the port had a highly interactive install which selectively copied only > certain components of the port into place. Then you could conceivably use one > port to generate several different packages, each with a slightly different > intended audience. Just don't fall in love with the idea so much that you > start obfuscating ports unnecessarily - that's all I'm asking! :) What about the issue of compressed vs. uncompressed manpages ? To solve this, I could just make two PLISTS in ${FILESDIR}, and based on the variable NOMANCOMPRESS copy one or the other into ${PKGDIR} before the install was registered. Acceptable ? I agree with both of you on the complexity of the Makefile. It's damn ugly looking at it a couple of hours later. Ah, how the youthful glow does dim. I'll save it for ports that need it. -- j. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James FitzGibbon james@ican.net | | Internet Canada Corp. Voice/Fax: 416-363-8518/8713 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+