From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 14 13:30:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E1554D3A for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22700 invoked by uid 0); 14 Feb 2000 21:30:58 -0000 Received: from dial-102-5.ots.utexas.edu (HELO nomad.dataplex.net) (128.83.176.5) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 14 Feb 2000 21:30:58 -0000 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: "David O'Brien" , Subject: Re: multi-level categories Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:05:19 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD Ports References: <20000214115757.B75380@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000214115757.B75380@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00021415283600.07461@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:58:18AM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > > editors/emacs/Makefile > > .../patches/patch-aa > > .../patches/patch-ab > > .../patches/patch-ac > > .../patches/patch-ad > > .../pkgCOMMENT \ > > .../pkgDESCR \ these stuff moved > > .../pkgPLIST / from ${PKGDIR} > > .../pkgREQ / > > I would prefer pkg_COMMENT or pkg.COMMENT to make things easier to read. How about simply COMMENT ? I fail to see a namespace conflict within the port's directory. The other extreme would be COMMENT.zsh-3.4 or some equivalent syntax which creates a globally unique name. Although I can see some benefits to globally unique names, I think the value is too low. If a script needs to extract then into a flat directory, it can rename them on the way. > > I don't want to move patches out to the main directory, some ports > > have an enormous number of patches and the toplevel will look too > > cluttered. I am ambivalent about moving patches into files. Since > > I disagree. Can you give an example of a port with so many patches that > things get too cluttered? What is the motivation to treat scripts and patches differently? crypto/stealth/ .../Makefile .../COMMENTS .../CHECKSUMS ... .../patch-aa .../patch-ab .../script-preload .../script-register-with-authorities .../script-confiscate-munitions ... I think they would still fit on one page. -- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@Dataplex.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message