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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:46:23 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362545 - in head: . games/bsdgames games/bsdgames/files
Message-ID:  <20140723204623.GB34571@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <2FF4267F-CF53-41A6-B4A3-9B9D7A630014@adamw.org>
References:  <201407221445.s6MEjf7o025973@svn.freebsd.org> <20140723183649.GA34571@hades.panopticon> <2FF4267F-CF53-41A6-B4A3-9B9D7A630014@adamw.org>

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* Adam Weinberger (adamw@adamw.org) wrote:

> > I advice to revert this.
> >=20
> > This is not hier(7)ful as there's no var neither under /usr nor under
> > /usr/local.
> >=20
> > This is not better, as you should expect /usr/local to be mounted
> > read-only along with /usr, so changing data should only reside under
> > /var.
>=20
> Both you and itetcu brought up that last point to me... it=E2=80=99s a =
really good point that I hadn=E2=80=99t considered when I made the move.
>=20
> > If @sample doesn't do the thing, just don't use it, do not invent hac=
ks.
> > It's broken in many ways and I've planned to start discussion on that=
.
>=20
> It=E2=80=99d be helpful to have the PHB say how to properly handle thin=
gs outside of ${PREFIX}. There=E2=80=99s essentially no information on it=
, nor on the differences in how pkgng and pkg_tools handle it. Not even a=
nything in CHANGES about it.
>=20
> It=E2=80=99s not even about =E2=80=9Cinventing hacks,=E2=80=9D so much =
as having to figure out the right way to do things by trial and error, be=
cause documentation doesn=E2=80=99t exist.

My idea is that it should be done by pkg-install/pkg-deinstall
scripts. These are clear (no need for single line chains as in
`@exec foo && bar && baz'), reusable (may just copy scripts from
other ports), are not affected (essentially removed) by `make plist`,
do not induce false positives in sanity checkers and will work
regardless of pkg-plist infrastructure or policy changes.

pkg-plist, otoh, stays limited to plain file list with mixins of
predefined keywords inner workings of which you shouldn't care
about which work relative to PREFIX.

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