From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 23:52:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8640F16A4CE; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:52:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2out.barnet.com.au (mail2out.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5DD43D2D; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:52:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail2out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 27) id 4A942707453; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:52:55 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <41F195D600012B781A09BA@BarNet> Received: from mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (mail2.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD4A707451; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:52:54 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (edwin-3.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.12.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1567A70744F; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:52:54 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F1BCC6109; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:52:52 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:52:52 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Alex Dupre Message-ID: <20050121235252.GO1175@k7.mavetju> References: <20050121205202.4092fc5a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050121200310.GA47832@graf.pompo.net> <41F18A5C.703@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F18A5C.703@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Thierry Thomas cc: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:52:56 -0000 On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > Thierry Thomas wrote: > >- if for some reason the port becomes uncomplete on certain platforms > >or after an upgrade, because a file is not built, we don't notice it. > > => 6 negative aspects. > > And if for any reason (=wrong logic on plist creation) the dynamic > package list includes some extraneous (maybe manually created) files, > they'll be deleted after an upgrade. > => 7 negative aspects. After seeing x11-wm/swm (thanks for flz@xbsd.org for pointing out): - It removes the history of what a port installs. It's always nice to know what happened with installed files between port version changes. - It gives unnecessary copy-and-paste bloat in the pre-install/do-install targets in the ports Makefiles, with higher chances of failure to forget to install something. => 9 negative aspects. Who is going for the double digits? Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/