From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 23:01:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CD71065674 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:01:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net (eastrmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.240.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AA18FC12 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081217230122.CXPD27943.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:01:22 -0500 Received: from localhost ([68.103.159.188]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id sP1L1a00G44AlM802P1MdY; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:01:21 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=RhQ5P_Oq81AA:10 a=oXpUwwDD9DcA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=IZ4ByZiUd2moCTalDtEA:9 a=25ksRA7HOGZb85QpJxS0cyZeAWkA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:01:01 -0600 To: "Dmitry Marakasov" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20081209222042.GC29817@hades.panopticon> <8763lsi10m.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081210181125.GA86341@hades.panopticon> <87zlj3heor.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081210223522.GA6367@hades.panopticon> <87vdtrhb6r.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081211082325.GA6167@hades.panopticon> <20081212102905.GC7422@hades.panopticon> <7d6fde3d0812131133g3956eea7n6830eefde3532a4f@mail.gmail.com> <20081217184756.GA92643@hades.panopticon> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20081217184756.GA92643@hades.panopticon> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (Linux) Cc: Garrett Cooper , FreeBSD Ports Mailing List Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:01:22 -0000 On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:47:56 -0600, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Garrett Cooper (yanefbsd@gmail.com) wrote: > >> > It's useful for me too sometimes, but it's already not 100% reliable, >> > as some ports still generate it dynamically, some use PLIST_FILES, >> some >> > use PLIST_SUB so it's not apparent under which path and/or name the >> file >> > mentioned in plist is actually installed. >> Getting rid of the plist files will force a major rewrite of >> pkg_install. Are you really comfortable doing that :\? > > Not getting rid but generating automatically. Many ports already > have no pkg-plist. I mean by keep static pkg-plist (not get rid of it). I don't like dynamic plist. I do not need to list my reasons as it's already in the archives by someone and maybe me (not remember). Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org