From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 8 10: 6:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.psn.net (neptune.psn.net [207.211.58.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E505B1524E for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:06:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@shadow.blackdawn.com) Received: from 5042-243.008.popsite.net ([209.224.140.243] helo=shadow.blackdawn.com) by neptune.psn.net with esmtp (PSN Internet Service 2.12 #3) id 11ktBI-0001UX-00; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:06:18 -0700 Received: (from will@localhost) by shadow.blackdawn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA45734; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:06:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from will) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19991108114522.D78826@lovett.com> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 13:06:12 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: Will Andrews From: Will Andrews To: Ade Lovett Subject: Re: Possible change in the Qt port. Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08-Nov-99 Ade Lovett wrote: > That's potentially a huge can of worms you're opening there, though. > > Once we have this precedent, one can easily envisage a situation where > we have ${X11BASE}/kde, ${X11BASE}/gnome etc.. etc.. potentially > leading to much spammage of the third level directories under X11BASE > (and, indeed, LOCALBASE). I've already considered this.. and you're absolutely right. However, what else can we do? If nothing else, the KDE stuff should be moved to ${X11BASE}. > It makes things look very messy and disorganised. > > Granted, it's a considerable pain for porters to hack stuff around to > fit in with hier(7) [at a guess, a good 75% of the patches for the GNOME > ports are exactly of this type], but it can (and should) be done. I agree wholeheartedly.. I'm just sick of lousy Qt implementations making it difficult to port Qt-based programs. Making patches (and then redoing them should a Makefile.in or configure script change) is a pain in the ass. Granted, it's not _THAT_ difficult, just seems quite an unnecessary expenditure, and can seem like a big job when you have 10 or so patches (like gnomelibs,xemacs,etc). I probably speak for quite a few of the porters around here.. > One of the many wonderful things about *BSD is hier(7) -- it makes > things very easy to find -- please let's not destroy this. Yes, I agree completely. I like its extremely meticulous organization. > Hmm.. maybe some patches to portlint for hier(7) violations (against > the PLIST) are in order. Kinda like a "virtual Bruce" for ports.. Sounds like a nice idea. I'm not coding that, though. ;) -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message