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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:54:49 -0400
From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
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Subject: Re: Where should "contrib" scripts and utilities be installed?
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Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:

> When some project includes a contrib/ directory with its source where 
> should those canonically be installed?
>
>     /usr/local/share/$PORT
>
> or
>
>    /usr/local/share/doc/$PORT
>
> or someplace else.
>
> In particular, I'm planing on submitting a patch to sysutils/rsnapshot port 
> to also install, somewhere, the contrib directly that comes out of the 
> tarball.
          
The existence of ports with a "-contrib" suffix suggests you may need to 
create a distinct port for the contrib files.  databases/postgresql-contrib, 
for example.

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>