Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:03:38 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@dougbarton.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/xdvi pkg-plist Message-ID: <41C9FD4A.5010200@dougbarton.net> In-Reply-To: <20041222212557.GA81792@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200412221147.iBMBl3FO037030@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041222193344.GA49344@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.61.0412222217250.83815@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20041222212557.GA81792@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:20:15PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>'@unexec rmdir %D/... 2> /dev/null || true' form.
>>
>>How about adding support for something like
>>
>> @emptydirrm share/texmf
>>
>>in pkg-plist to the port machinery (which may expand to the above,
>>internally)?
>
>
> Some of us have talked about it, but the hurdle is that we'd require
> every port user to update to a new version of the pkg_tools, or they
> wouldn't be able to install ports that use it. There's currently no
> mechanism for this.
So if we all agree it's useful, let's introduce the feature to pkg_tools
now, so that at some point down the road we can think about the process of
doing "something" so that it can be utilized. I can think of lots of ways to
do a flag day for this, but let's get the feature in the code now.
Doug
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