* 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. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..: jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amdmi3.ru _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
