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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:41:42 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: multi-level categories
Message-ID:  <20000214234142.E76484@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000214202034.A85452@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:20:34PM -0800
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:20:34PM -0800, Jeremy Lea wrote:
> Make COMMENT the first line of DESCR.  It is anyhow in about 40% of the
> ports, and it means that there is only one file like this to maintain. 
> It's pretty easy to 'head -n 1 DESCR'.  This would save 3069 files.

That is a very good idea!


> There's at least one very good reason not to do this.  security/pgp. 
> Sometimes you need two patch sets.  And although I don't think we have
> any patches.i386 and patches.alpha yet, they'll come...

What patches would be different for the i386 and the Alpha that can't be
dealt with using "#ifdef __i386__" or "#ifdef __alpha__" ?

 
> I think that having support for more than one patches dir might be nice
> (especially for ports using MASTERDIR).

I haven't needed it for any of my ports and many of them are master-slave
types.
 
> Having one patch per file makes it more difficult to determine if a file
> is already being patched,

Why?  ``fgrep foo.c patch-*'' is broken or something?

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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