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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 2020 11:22:42 +0100
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r553700 - in head/x11-fonts: xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-cyrillic xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps xorg-fonts-truetype xorg-fonts-type1
Message-ID:  <f9e57cf0-554b-afec-73d1-ff31f9af4d75@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20201102080745.ajba7qpm7h73xn2a@aching.in.mat.cc>
References:  <202010301610.09UGAFhS035068@repo.freebsd.org> <20201102080745.ajba7qpm7h73xn2a@aching.in.mat.cc>

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On 2020-11-02 09:07, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:10:15PM +0000, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
>> Author: 0mp
>> Date: Fri Oct 30 16:10:15 2020
>> New Revision: 553700
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/553700
>>
>> Log:
>>    Switch x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-* to USES=metaport
>>    
>>    Also, remove bugus CONFLICTS.
>>    
>>    I believe that the FONTDIR could be renamed to _FONTDIR and the RUN_DEPENDS
>>    sorted, but let's do it another time to keep the diff small. Also,
>>    prefixing non-standard variables with "_" is not officially documented yet
>>    in the Porter's Handbook (it's only the convention suggested by portclippy,
>>    which itself is not mentioned there yet).
> 
> It would probably be better to remove FONTDIR and switch to package
> dependecies instead of files, these port do not need the actual files,
> but they need that the depending package be installed.
> 

I told Mateusz to leave the FONTDIR thing alone, since there are 
references to it throughout the ports tree, and I am worried that 
changing or deleting it here would cause follow on effects.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising



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