It does seem like that really ought to be a distfile. Going by the comment, it is a newer upstream version of the file. Surely it must be available for download from somewhere. Worst case, it can be hosted on GitHub in a separate repo.
- Josh On 2020-10-23 20:08 , Christopher Jones wrote: > Hi, > > This file has annoyed me on a number of occasions. I work with a full > git checkout and tend to use utilities like ‘git grep’ a lot, and this > file often gets a hit in those searches, and due to its size spams the > results rendering it almost impossible to view any after that file. > > One option, if the port still needs to patch these rules, would be to > store it compressed in git, and uncompress it on the fly during patching > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/6d838b9cdbde1c2704da396a95ab99222b8db2c6/www/libhttpseverywhere/Portfile#L50 > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/6d838b9cdbde1c2704da396a95ab99222b8db2c6/www/libhttpseverywhere/Portfile#L50> > > Chris > >> On 23 Oct 2020, at 2:52 am, Ken Cunningham >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> The ports tree is getting bloaty as it is, but is is fairly egregious >> bloat… >> >> ls -la >> total 13680 >> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 22 Oct 18:46 . >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 23 Aug 15:39 .. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6992700 23 Aug 15:39 default.rulesets >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 664 23 Aug 15:39 >> patch-fix-typelib-generation.diff >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 910 28 Jun 07:30 patch-vala-0.42.diff >> >> >
