Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:10:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Making sample files easier Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308301858460.3091@wonkity.com>
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Sample files, like sample configuration files, are supposed to be installed if there is no identical file present. If a user-modified version is present, the sample file should not overwrite it, nor should that user-modified file be removed on deinstall. But unmodified sample files should be removed on deinstall. The logic to do this is confusing, full of double negatives and multiple conditionals. The plist has to be modified. It ends up being scripted in the Makefile or elsewhere, inconsistently. Is there any reason a standard SAMPLE_FILES= can't be used? Define files that are samples there, and let a system Makefile handle it consistently and make things easier for the port maintainer and the user. Maybe something like this is planned?
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