From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 19:54:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B0E106566C for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 19:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5442E8FC14 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 19:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwr19 with SMTP id 19so5391447iwr.13 for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:54:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uF3H4j6G9peCo0UXIoQ7OgKa9775YuklppUeTJQWt0w=; b=HWZMOQsTr/4LcH24/8oLH5KNopwECtZayiFeTFneGlUCFe5tzkRy++rixP0363KoL8 luPsafFYDxHjsuw0ZDIlwqtbfKWwhyIN8HV1u56LwRz4qYVttednkBCdA+XSLWidAFcn Lmy1LhmbuIshsAGYiJZ/tQta4dAF/YpfTmUMQ= Received: by 10.231.10.138 with SMTP id p10mr5166680ibp.84.1309722877126; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:54:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.155.141 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:54:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110703193906.GA4329@magic.hamla.org> References: <4E10BB64.9010904@missouri.edu> <20110703193906.GA4329@magic.hamla.org> From: Chris Rees Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 20:54:07 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Pzb9co1VLbRkqJ1rN2h6XhMv21Y Message-ID: To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Opinions sought on location of bsd.octave.mk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:54:38 -0000 On 3 July 2011 20:39, Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 13:56:36 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> I am the maintainer of the octave-forge ports. =A0These all use a file >> called bsd.octave.mk. >> >> Currently this is located in Mk. =A0But I have noticed that many ports >> have their bsd.*.mk files in one of their ports. =A0For example, >> bsd.mesalib.mk is in graphics/libGL. >> >> What is accepted opinion on this? =A0Should I move bsd.octave.mk to >> math/octave-forge-base? > > As you note above, Mk scripts exist in various locations, so there > appears to be no consensus. =A0However, I personally agree with the > sentiment in the (somewhat dated) Wiki: > > =A0http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsToDo#head-3834d3f3c000f64175eaac2e490a8e7= 6f6a5a244 > >> If you think it should be moved, please tell me how strong your view >> is. =A0I am told that it requires quite a bit of effort to perform this >> change, because CVS has to track all these changes. > > Unless there are strong *functional* motivations for making the change, > why bother? =A0Of course I may be missing some other nuance, but just my > 2c since you asked for it. :-) +1 to Sahil's point of view -- I don't think it'd be worth the repo bloat. Also.... I notice that bsd.gecko.mk was moved with no repocopy, please don't repeat that with this if you're going to go through with moving bsd.octave.mk! I've updated the Wiki to talk about bsd.mesalib.mk instead of the moved gecko too. Chris