From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 00:13:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B798C16A479 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 00:13:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A8243D6A for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 00:13:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.130.190] (port=45422 helo=smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FdFrA-0007nr-0h; Tue, 09 May 2006 02:13:40 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:59874 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FdFqx-0008Iy-CE; Tue, 09 May 2006 02:13:27 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 02:12:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060508200926.GA6005@daemons.gr> <20060508213819.GC73976@daemons.gr> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605090212.53269.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: Jeremy Messenger Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions 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: Tue, 09 May 2006 00:13:48 -0000 On Tuesday 09 May 2006 00:28, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 08 May 2006 16:38:19 -0500, Sideris Michael > > wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:24:51PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > > > >> Also, I'd like to see all the known bugs in OPTIONS fixed, before we > >> impose it on all the people. > > > > Of course they are not going to convert automagically, but if people are > > never willing to > > convert them, then they will never convert. > > Pav is right, it's one of reason I refused to convert any of my ports to > use OPTIONS. Also, the OPTIONS has some limited. I don't like to be > downgrade and limited by default. Once, all of known bugs are fixed and > get a lot better then I shall accept the convert. The truth is that I > always and still think that OPTIONS doesn't solve anything. > > As for improvement suggest, I always want our ports tree to merge two > prefixes (LOCALBASE/X11BASE) into a prefix. It's a big task. A simple hard link to start with? Would that leave many problems (name clashes?) I also wanted to see this LOCALBASE/X11BASE go since forever. It complicates quite a many ports needlessly (includes in both local and X11R6 trees etc). Cheers, Dan > > A bit OT: I have wrote cports.sh[1] that will running portlint on all > ports that maintain by same person. I am hoping to clean up all of gnome@ > ports when I am finishing w/ my final lab/exam on this week > (Tuesday/Thursday). > > [1] http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portstools/cports.sh > > Cheers, > Mezz > > > Sideris Michael.