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Date:      Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:52:51 +0900
From:      Sangwoo Shim <sangwoos@gmail.com>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org>, alejandro@varnet.biz, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/linux-ut2003-demo Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/games/linux-ut2003-demo/files ut2003-demo.in
Message-ID:  <4cbd01f4050906195211e71082@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0509061139480.79610@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <200509032046.j83KkpQL082427@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050904124420.545395cb@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050904171849.21d7613c.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <20050904185122.29cc5e11@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <Pine.BSF.4.62.0509061139480.79610@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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2005/9/6, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > We had a discussion on ports@ a while ago: As long as there are no very
> > urgent reasons to use a install-time generated plist a maintainer
> > should (as in: we point with fingers on you if you don't do it) use a
> > static plist since it is more beneficial for most people.
>=20
> I've been maintaining a static plist for the emulators/wine port, and
> usually accounts for about one third an update of that port takes me
> (in terms of manual work, not automated testing), but it's managable.
>=20
> Better tools, like David O'Brien asked for, certainly would be nice.

I've found that sysutils/pkg_trackinst was quite useful. Especially
pkg_genplist in this regard.

Sangwoo Shim







>=20
> Gerald
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