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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:18:52 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/irc/insub pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20041217141852.GJ79222@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <1103275349.98746.10.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
References:  <200412161851.iBGIpEeq058112@repoman.freebsd.org> <1103275349.98746.10.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>

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* Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> [041217 01:22] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein p??e v ?t 16. 12. 2004 v 18:51 +0000:
> > alfred      2004-12-16 18:51:14 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     irc/insub            pkg-plist 
> >   Log:
> >   /usr/local/share/cows is usually not empty because a prerequesite of
> >   this port installs file in there.  So replace the @dirrm with
> >   "@unexec rmdir %D/share/cows 2>/dev/null || true" as other ports
> >   do.  I don't like this, but I don't know what else would work,
> >   it would be nice if this "feature" was implemented as a builtin
> >   to the package system.
> 
> Is this software supposed to have the original cowsay files (those
> provided by cowsay port) installed at the runtime?
> 
> If yes, then you should add cowsay to RUN_DEPENDS and then you could
> remove handling of share/cows directory from plist completely, because
> cowsay port (dependency) would handle it.

Yes, but it installs its own cows...
  is that ok?

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
- email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684



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