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Subject: Re: portlint: DATADIR and NOEXAMPLEDOCS
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On 07/20/2011 07:31 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 7/20/11 4:40 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> I have a couple of questions.
>>
>> 1)  Why does portlint complain if a port is not DATADIR compliant?
>
> The warning is very conditional.  It tries to provide information so one
> can make an informed decision as to whether or not they want to be
> DATADIR-safe.
>
>>
>> What was the rationale behind making ports DATADIR compliant, so that if
>> one types "make install DATADIR=/somewhere_else" then what would be
>> stored in /usr/local/share/port_name will now be in /somewhere_else.
>>
>> If there are one hundred ports depending upon port x/y, and those ports
>> use the x/y DATADIR, then each of those hundred ports will have to include:
>> DATADIR!=    cd ${.CURDIR}/../../x/y&&  make -V DATADIR
>
> This doesn't make sense for all ports.  That's why the warning is soft.
>
>>
>> This will really slow down makeindex.
>>
>> It seems to me that you cannot use:
>> DATADIR=    `cd ${.CURDIR}/../../x/y&&  make -V DATADIR`
>> because this won't properly set PLIST_SUB.
>>
>> 2)  Why does portlint NOT complain if a port is not NOPORTEXAMPLES
>> compliant?
>
> No one asked for it.
>
>>
>> This would seem a natural extension of portlint complaining if a port is
>> not NOPORTDOCS compliant.
>
> I agree.  Patches welcome.
>


Thanks.  Those are both good answers.

I'll look into a patch for NOPORTEXAMPLES, but the code is definitely 
quite involved, and I can now see it will be a little bit more work than 
"monkey see - monkey do."