Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:30:56 +0200 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help with new port math/ggobi Message-ID: <a0777e081001281130vb0c3cdet47ae13ebe5f49c87@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B608D82.1040901@gwdg.de> References: <4AFD2B5F.3070304@gwdg.de> <4B608D82.1040901@gwdg.de>
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> > 1. The port needs libraries gtk2 and libxml2. > Is it ok how the port ensures they are installed? > Ports has a predefined method of doing this: USE_GNOME= gtk20 libxml2 > 3. ggobi authors suggest to create /etc/xdg/ggobi/ for resource file. > A better place would be /usr/local/etc/xdg/ggobi/, I think. > What do you think? How could this be coded in the port? > Most programs I've seen are PREFIX safe. It is almost always better to use $PREFIX. The only exception I've ever seen is something like perl which many broken programs use. > > 5. When deinstalling, should we try to remove dirs share/applications > and etc/xdg? (Mostly they are used by other ports, too) > There is a feature "@dirrmtry" which will only remove the directory if no one is using it
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