Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/py-Scientific-doc

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Actually, I disagree - we need to talk about this, as the practice of
copying information from the PLIST into the Makefile, having to
maintain information in 2 places, and in general muddying the waters
between a list of files in the package (the PLIST) and the
instructions for building the whole package -- these 2 need to be kept
distinct, both logically and physically.

If AUTO_MKDIRS isn't working properly, let's fix it, and then make it
the default, please

On 26 July 2016 at 02:11, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 08:44:51PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
>> @@ -13,20 +14,17 @@ COMMENT=  Python modules for scientific c
>>  CONFLICTS+=  py-Scientific-*
>>
>>  NO_BUILD=    yes
>> -
>>  USE_TOOLS+=  pax
>> +AUTO_MKDIRS= yes
>
> Please don't use AUTO_MKDIRS without good reason. IMO it breaks typical
> patterns for PLIST regeneration and can introduce silent errors.
> Packages with only a couple of entries certainly don't benefit from it.
>
> Joerg
>