From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 22 23:03:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF56A16A4CE; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DA843D3F; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from DougB@dougbarton.net) Received: from [192.0.35.106] (ob.icann.org[192.0.35.106]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004122223034501100a67gse>; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:46 +0000 Message-ID: <41C9FD4A.5010200@dougbarton.net> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:03:38 -0800 From: Doug Barton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <200412221147.iBMBl3FO037030@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041222193344.GA49344@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041222212557.GA81792@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041222212557.GA81792@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Gerald Pfeifer cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/xdvi pkg-plist X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:03:48 -0000 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 -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough