From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 29 2:51:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C5537B423; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13ewnz-0000fC-00; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:50:11 +0200 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:50:11 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Brandon Fosdick , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Ports layout reorganization (Re: ports tree idea: Combine DESCR and COMMENT) Message-ID: <20000929115011.A2522@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <39CD200B.A10214EA@glue.umd.edu> <20000923233215.A45139@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CD295E.453FF278@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@freebsd.org on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:03:37AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 2000-09-29 (02:03), Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > ## ls > total 8 > 1 CVS/ 1 checksum 1 pkg-comment 1 pkg-plist > 1 Makefile 1 files/ 1 pkg-descr 1 scripts/ > === > > much better than this: > > === > ## ls > total 9 > 1 CVS/ 1 files/ 1 pkg-plist > 1 Makefile 1 pkg-comment 2 scripts-create-dev-link* > 1 checksum 1 pkg-descr > === While I'm not adamant about it, I like the idea of combining files and scripts. patches all begin with patch-*, scripts can be things like 'configure', 'build', or PKGINSTALL, which don't conflict, usually, and shouldn't be a hassle. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message