Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:40:20 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, pav@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: extract both bz2 and gz files from distfiles Message-ID: <44D8CC84.9010202@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060807235205.6d95f549@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <14817321@bsam.ru> <20060807183724.GA47899@xor.obsecurity.org> <16560673@bsam.ru> <20060807201203.GA84762@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <50488990@bsam.ru> <1154984178.95608.6.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20060807210603.GA85637@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <1154985655.95608.8.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20060807235205.6d95f549@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> (Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:20:55 +0200):
>
>> So you prefer imposing yet another dependency on the user is less evil
>> than adding few lines of extra code in port Makefile?
>>
>> Interesting PoV.
>
> We're talking about 4.x. It's on the way out. So it's about increased
> complexity (own do-extract target) on the well supported systems, or
> about another dependency on the old and "we support it if it isn't a
> hassle" versions. For the linux ports Boris is needing this part, I
> vote for another dependency (like we have already with USE_GCC in other
> ports).
FWIW, I agree with Brooks and Pav here, and that's speaking as someone who
still actively maintains his ports on RELENG_4 (although I'm looking forward
to not having to do so).
Doug
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