On 19.06.20 04:52, Tijl Coosemans wrote:You should not use USE_LINUX_RPM. It's meant for infrastructure ports.Yes, this is the current stance, but it seems like an unnecessary limitation... :( Software distributed by vendors in RPM-format should be easier for ports to install.
Some history of why it is like it is. Back then before I introduced this, the linuxulator was a self contained area. At some point I took over the maintenance and converted a lot of parts into a fall-through-to-FreeBSD-files behavior (my goal was to have all config files which exist in FreeBSD and are compatible, to be used). As part of this, some stuff which was installed by default before was then made optional... or more modular if you want. As part of this modularisation, USE_LINUX_RPM was born, and most of it --- if not all --- has survived 2 linux-base-ports maintainer-generations.
Please, consider changing this.
Well... feel free to come up with a good plan. A lot of this linux stuff doesn't fit as it is, and some of the linux stuff has hardcoded expectations which don't match with what FreeBSD uses or used. Most often (at least back when I took care about some linux stuff) was to let leaf ports install into LINUXBASE and to provide a wrapper or link in PREFIX. This means most of the time customization was needed anyway (in the past), and most of the time (in the past) a simple dump into PREFIX wouldn't have worked anyway. If you have a good idea how to handle that, we will listen.
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