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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:25:42 -0400
Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> wrote:

> Doing things this way also makes the Makefile quite a bit longer. 
> I've set $EXTRACT_ONLY because the HTML file is not compressed.  If
> the portlint errors are safe to ignore, is there a benefit to this
> method aside from the checksum on the HTML file?

IMHO, default needed files must have an entry in distinfo.
If you really want to provide this file with your port, and getting rid
of checksum/distinfo/Makefile related problems and if I were you, I'd
add a knob like "WITH_OPTDOCS" and the right instructions in the
makefile.

It was my 2cts :)

regards,

clem