From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 1 20:25:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BBF16A400 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5799213C46B for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37FD1A4D8C; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C460512F4; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:25:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:25:11 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Luigi Rizzo Message-ID: <20070201202511.GA74029@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070201111727.B83474@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201192051.GA72926@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070201113720.D83474@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201194417.GA73296@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070201122011.B84181@xorpc.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070201122011.B84181@xorpc.icir.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: /usr/local/share/mk ? 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: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:25:24 -0000 --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:20:11PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:37:20AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > ... > > > Now, this may well be a one-of-a-kind case calling for an ad-hoc > > > solution, but if all we need is accept to use ${PREFIX}/share/mk > > > for third-party .mk files, this seems a better way to handle > > > the problem. > >=20 > > After >10 years you are apparently the first person to want such a > > feature, so this suggests the application is limited :) >=20 > possibly, yes. Or maybe there were other applications solved with > other hacks - e.g. (randomly browsing in /usr/share/mk), do the > following really belong there: >=20 > bsd.info.mk - building GNU Info hypertext system > bsd.snmpmod.mk - building modules for the SNMP daemon bsnmpd >=20 > They don't seem to be a part of the 'base' system unlike all > the others. ? Those are both used by components of the base. > So... there is not a recursive INSTALL, maybe nobody asked for it, > but certainly we have a lot of replicated constructs in the > ports' makefiles, and some port maintainers with a lot of patience :) OK, but I don't see what this has to do with your proposal. Kris --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFwkynWry0BWjoQKURAtpYAKDnycktvv94Ie/qmxPPJZO1HnStqACgkiMS 0lm2nqPeQDsy8Equw+mC0LM= =wWD8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--