On 8/30/2013 9:10 PM, Warren Block wrote: > Sample files, like sample configuration files, are supposed to be > installed if there is no identical file present. If a user-modified > version is present, the sample file should not overwrite it, nor should > that user-modified file be removed on deinstall. But unmodified sample > files should be removed on deinstall. > > The logic to do this is confusing, full of double negatives and multiple > conditionals. The plist has to be modified. It ends up being scripted > in the Makefile or elsewhere, inconsistently. > > Is there any reason a standard SAMPLE_FILES= can't be used? Define > files that are samples there, and let a system Makefile handle it > consistently and make things easier for the port maintainer and the user. > > Maybe something like this is planned?
Sure, makes sense to me. Someone just needs to implement it. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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