From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 14 23:41:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFEE4236; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA27225; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA77325; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:41:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jeremy Lea Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: multi-level categories Message-ID: <20000214234142.E76484@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: FreeBSD Ports References: <20000108131719.A22210@futuresouth.com> <20000118172055.D457@argon.blackdawn.com> <20000214202034.A85452@shale.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000214202034.A85452@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:20:34PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message