Re: MKCATPAGES and MANINSTALL

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

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:59:24PM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > the recent problems in pkgsrc with BSD-Makefile using packages is a
> 
> just to note, Imakefile also seems affected (see graphics/xv)

imake is a separate problem.

> > consequence of two different variables being used to control whether cat
> > pages should be installed or not.
> >
> > MKCATPAGES is used to specify whether cat pages should be built. That
> > was changed to "no".
> >
> > MANINSTALL lists what variations are to be *installed*. If
> > MKCATPAGES=no, it simply skips them. This still defaults to
> > "maninstall catinstall htmlinstall". This is the value used by pkgsrc to
> > decide if cat pages should be filtered out of the PLIST or not.
> >
> > Short term, MANINSTALL needs to follow MKCATPAGES. But the more
> > interesting question is, if both ways are still needed and desirable.
> 
> seems to me, that pkgsrc should be using a different method to filter
> pages out of the PLIST..

Well, suggest something better.

Joerg