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Subject: Re: pkg_add mimic code? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:45:53 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:30:45 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Let's split by category.  I'll take japanese (obviously :), I assume
> Jean-Marc can take care of print.  What about others?  I can take some 
> more, but will wait for people to grab what they are interested in.

I'll take editors, lang, devel and games.

> That is, just rip out all the cookie stuff and the dependencies, and
> change the target name from "something" to "do-something".  My guess
> is that that should do it for 70% of the Makefiles.

I think so too - and the overall simplification we gain in those
Makefiles will make it a lot easier for others to understand and
improve them later.  This is a win.

> The remaining 25% need some things added to make it work with
> accordance to the new bsd.port.mk (like the fake-pkg stuff) but these
> need to be fixed anyway.
> 
> The remaining 5% are print Makefiles so I'll let Jean-Marc worry about 
> them. :)

Maybe you should just take the scary cases and let the ports-grunts
do ALL the easy ones?  This would seem to me to be a better division
of effort..

					Jordan