Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:00:52 +0100 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two suggestions for ports Message-ID: <4.1.19990206115059.00983ce0@194.184.65.4> In-Reply-To: <199902060653.HAA08840@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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At 07.53 06/02/99 +0100, you wrote: >Also, after a bit of playing with ports, i wonder if it would be better >to have the content of files like files/MD5, and pkg/* directly into >the Makefile. > >This is based on the following motivations: > > * these files are often very short (one line or little more) > so the clutter in the Makefile because one should quote multiline > text is not significant > > * updates to the above files generally occur when the distribution > changes, so usually one has to modify Makefile as well. By putting > things in one place reduces the number of modified files and is also > a good reminder for lazy people. > > * one of the problems of the ports tree is the large number of > directories -- by putting everything in the Makefile we save a > couple of directories per port (in the frequent case when there is > nothing else than MD5 in files/) > >I think it would be fairly simple to implement the above in a backward >compatible way (use the Make variables if defined, otherwise resort to >the old file resources) > >Opinions ? (don't ask me for patches though, i don't know enough of the >various dependencies in the *mk files...) I think it's a very good idea. If I can suggest something I recomend also a keyword (not mandatory) for distfiles size (which I put in the DESCR for the few ports I made). I'd like to know before how much I am going to download before begin to "make install". Especially when I am calling my ISP from my house and with an humble 33.6 modem :-) Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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