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Subject: Re: big PLIST_FILES patch
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> 
>>I've noticed that many ports have just one line in their packing list.
>>I've made a patch to use the PLIST_FILES variable in place of most these
>>simple packing lists, in order to reduce the numbers of inodes and blocks
>>that users need to unpack the ports collection.  This patch would affect
>>1,217 ports.  There are 50-odd pkg-plist files that just have a comment in
>>them; this patch doesn't address those (I have a hunch that they could
>>just be removed without causing problems).
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> When do you think you'll be able to fix all those plist problems in
> your ports, and other port build failures?  I'd prefer you did this
> before working on other port changes, since they've been broken for
> going on 3 months or more now.

But Kris, 1217 ports is a quite big work. Agreed?

-- 
Sem.