Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 07:12:20 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal: PRENAME variable Message-ID: <00040907122000.05113@nomad.dataplex.net> In-Reply-To: <200004090812.BAA04016@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <200004090812.BAA04016@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Michael came up with the following idea. What do you guys think? Michael isn't authorized to have good ideas :-) > Basically we set PKGNAMEPREFIX to "ja-" or "p5-" or whatever when the > package name has a language-specifier as noted in the handbook. Sounds good, at least on the surface. I see no problem in that naming convention results. > We can even put "PKGNAMEPREFIX=ja-" in ports/japanese/Makefile.inc and > let the bsd.port.mk inclusion rule take care of most of the ports > (except for those use MASTERDIR in another category). <devil's advocate> Assume I have ports/discussion/myport and ports/japanese/discussion/myport They depend on ports/discussion/mylib and ports/japanese/discussion/mylib respectively. They also depend on ports/discussion/commonlib Now, how do we create the references? I worry that confusion will ensue if PKGNAMEPREFIX is automatically inserted in some places, but not in others. The problem is analogous to the shell conventions for relative vs absolute paths. </devil's advocate> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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