Re: Skipping certain files during distfile extraction

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

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:18:50PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> On 20.03.2020 20:00, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Why would that approach be the worst? What's the downside?

It hides files in a way that is pretty difficult to discover, especially
when it involves wildcards.

Joerg