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Date:      Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:57:12 -0900 (AKST)
From:      rflynn@acsalaska.net
To:        "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, marcus@freebsd.org, FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What use is WWWDIR_REL?
Message-ID:  <2769.46.129.107.107.1328925432.squirrel@mymail.acsalaska.net>
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Hi,

>>> Clearly I'm missing something then, because I don't see how they
>>> accomplish anything useful. Perhaps you can enlighten me? There is
>>> nothing in the CVS log that even mentions them, never mind why they were
>>> added (bad portmgr, no cookie!).

In theory they're useful for:
post-install:
     @(cd ${PREFIX} && foo-magic ${WWWDIR_REL} ${DATADIR_REL})

But if this only happens in theory, there's no use in keeping it around.

-- Mel




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