Re: import wip/prosody

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 06:14:16PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> writes:
> 
> All good points, but:
> 
> > pkglint detects practically all cases where variables are overwritten or
> > redundant. Therefore I don't see a reason to require the += operator, or
> > to document anything about this in the pkgsrc guide.
> 
> I don't think pkglint should be the definition of correct.  If something
> is supposed to be a certain way, the guide should say it, and pkglint
> should warn for things that deviate from the published rules.  (Or if
> there is a good warning not supportable from the guide, the published
> rules improved.)

In practice, for verifying a minimum level of correctness for wip packages,
most developers don't have the guide correctly memorized, so "pkglint doesn't
complain" is a useful standard there.

Regardless, USE_LANGUAGES=	is much more common in pkgsrc.