On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Matthias Kilian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Based on an idea from dcoppa@ for databases/hs-redis, I'd like to > move almost all Haskell distfiles fetched from hackage.haskell.org > into a common subdirectory `ghc', and also move the ghc distfiles > there (from ghc-${MODGHC_VER}). > > The reason is that especially on hackage a lot of Haskell packages > have very generic names; often, they're far too generich (like > redis, gio, cairo, pango, ...) and sooner or later they will conflict > with distfiles from other ports. > > The diff below touches lang/ghc, databases/hs-redis (it can use the > ghc DIST_SUBDIR, too) and devel/cpphs, which is an exception from > the DIST_SUBDIR rule, because it's also build on non-ghc platforms. > > I'm not showing the remaining 122 ports needing a distinfo update > together with this diff, because those are just boring ;-) > > To save some bandwidth (and diskspace), you may run something like the > shell script below this mail to move distfiles into the proper location > instead of having to refetch them all. > > Comments? Objections?
OK for me! cheers, david
