Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:56 +0000 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why change to plist-sub for pkg-message? Message-ID: <4B5630C0.9040202@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <20100119213546.GD54096@atarininja.org> References: <4B54D17E.8000508@FreeBSD.org> <4B550975.8090800@p6m7g8.com> <4B550C9E.6040303@FreeBSD.org> <20100119213546.GD54096@atarininja.org>
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Wesley Shields wrote: > > You are correct that there are too many variations, not to mention my > patch failed to handle the case where a port is installed as an > EXTRACT_DEPENDS. That is part of the reason that the PR is in limbo - it > clearly needs more work. I would love to find time to clean it up > because I still think the feature is useful. Thanks for the hint on > using +DISPLAY for this. If I can ever find the time to re-work the > patch I will certainly explore that option. Personally, I'd love to see files/pkg-message.in as the 1 true only way. But pav already veto'ed that, so moving on. I did think of another reason why the particular patch doug asked about is still good. Separation of Languages. It removes the 'text' from the 'Makefile'. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024D/DB9B8C1C B90B FBC3 A3A1 C71A 8E70 3F8C 75B8 8FFB DB9B 8C1C Philip M. Gollucci (pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) c: 703.336.9354 VP Apache Infrastructure; Member, Apache Software Foundation Committer, FreeBSD Foundation Consultant, P6M7G8 Inc. Sr. System Admin, Ridecharge Inc. Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.
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