Subject: Re: two minor changes to X.org packages
To: Adam Ciarcinski <adam@albedo.art.pl>
From: Kouichirou Hiratsuka <hira@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/01/2005 19:40:24
At Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:52:29 +0200 (CEST),
Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
> 
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I've committed the following two changes to X.org packages.
> >>>
> >>>  1) Unify PLIST. (xorg-libs and xorg-server)
> >>>    Old PLIST.* entries exist between `@comment begin ${NAME}'
> >>>    and `@comment end ${NAME}' in PLIST.  If ${NAME} is added
> >>>    to XORG_PLIST_ENTRY, these entries are left in PLIST.
> >>
> >> Why was this done?  It seems to add more complexity where the previous
> >> structure was enough, directly supported by pkgsrc and currently
> >> "enforced" in it.
> >
> > Well, this is much better than before, because we have 1 PLIST file and not
> > 8 files, and it works as before for our supported platforms.
> >
> > If you want to improve it, please feel free to modify it.
> 
> I actually prefer the old approach, where I could easily "diff" different 
> PLISTs.  Now it makes things a little more complicated. :]
> 
Hi,

I prefer the new one, because PKGDIR is very clean.  And I don't
feel difficulty to the maintenance of the PLIST.

However, surely, it is complicated.  If many people have objection
to the new method, I'll back out :-)

best regards.