Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On May 23, 2012, at 16:39, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
>> What is the argument for apache2 to continue violating mtree?
> 
> The only one I can think of is that tons of other ports currently assume 
> that's the layout. Thus changing the apache2 layout requires changing tons of 
> ports in unison.
> 
> If we instead made a new apache24 port we would be free to give it any layout 
> we wanted, and then over time adapt all the other ports to depend on apache24 
> instead of apache2. It would still be an unpleasant time for users of those 
> ports until all of them are converted and apache2 is deprecated.

We could also do another thing :

1) keep the layout as it is now and upgrade completely to 2.4.x as was
posited by you -Ryan- in a previous post.

2) work on a longterm project where we gradually find every port that
assumes the current layout and convert them

3) after testing (2) make a _BIG_ _BANG_ upgrading from the present
layout to a layout that doesn't violate mtree

I find it of more value to get 2.4.x into the tree than to wait any
longer for a new layour which we don't have any time frame for. We are
already a couple of months late in releasing 2.4.x to the public.

:-)
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