From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 12 18:16: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CF437B417 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:15:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0D2CgQ88881; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:12:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200201130212.g0D2CgQ88881@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:12:39 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: proposed solution for package-only ports To: anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020112221028.GA1233@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12 Jan, The Anarcat wrote: >> There goes another one... :-( A port for the sake of Bento's >> package building. BTW, other ports like this are named with -nox11: >> ImageMagick, GhostScript... > > We have a recurring problem here. Ok, how about the following attempt at a solution... A separate subtree: /usr/ports/bento [or whatever] all of the existing sattelite ports will be repocopied in there (except, may be, for the language-specific ones) and the new ones will be added in there. The rule of thumb will be, if this port's only reason for existence is the Bento package building, it should be under /usr/ports/bento. This way the "package people" wouldn't have to design much of the "multiple packages from one port" on one side, and the "ports purity people" will simply not checkout, install, cvsup the ``bento'' subtree. Heck, the "package people" will be able to add more and more stuff in there -- guilt free :-) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message