Re: Skipping certain files during distfile extraction

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:08:12PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> when the portability check fails for a shell program, one approach is to
> patch it, the other is to ignore it.
> 
> There's a third way, which is to not extract that file at all. Currently
> that would involve setting two variables:

IMO that's the worst of the three approaches. It also doesn't add
anything compared to removing them in post-extract. It is questionable
complexity at best.

Joerg