On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:23:25 -0600, Dmitry Marakasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
* Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This is what Debian and Gentoo does. Remember we don't have to pass
DESTDIR variable to 'make -C /usr/ports/editors/emacs-cvs' instead it
will be passed to the 'gmake' process invoked by port's Makefile. If we
I understand. But you're implying that there is Makefile and it supports
DESTDIR. As I understand, you're referring to autotools-based ports.
Remember, those are less than 1/4 of the collection.
pass DESTDIR to port's commandline, then it will install all
dependencies in that chroot which is not desired, we simply care about
the files installed by that port. Since there're already 20,000 ports we
can't do it by default, so we've to hack some knob (like
REQUIRES_DYNAMIC_INSTALLATION) which if defined will enable this
behaviour.
So if I understand correctly, you're proposing to only use dynamic
plist generation for the ports that support it without modification,
i.e. autotools-based?
My opinion is that we should support the feature for all ports, or don't
support it at all. Only getting rid of ~5k pkg-plists is not a huge
accomplishment considering the mess it causes and I doubt it's worth
the work on adding the feature to port.mk and then rebuilding and
testing all affected ports. Being able to forget about pkg-plists
once and forever however would be a huge accomplishment and if that's
possible it should be done sooner or later.
I object on get rid of pkg-plist. I depend on pkg-plist too much. I think
it's important for us to keep on track where the files/directories are.
Cheers,
Mezz
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