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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 2020 11:40:18 +0100
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, 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:  <501b95d3-521c-c73a-438e-97718c9208c6@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20201102103029.urikofjptnrxub5d@ivaldir.net>
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On 11/2/20 11:30 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 11:22:42AM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>     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.
> Given how FONTDIR is used in those ports, I don't see how it is possible that it
> has follow on effects.

I've grepped the ports tree, Niclas, and it seems like those FONTDIR variables are safe to remove. 
I'll post a patch to phabricator shortly.

Cheers!

Mateusz




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