Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/py-Scientific-doc

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2016-08-03 at 05:30 BST, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> Package views used dynamic PLISTs, all of our perl packages use them too -
> I'd love to see us use them completely. Unfortunately, my views are not
> shared by others who consider the PLIST to be a sanity check when updating
> packages. I can see this PoV, but I don't agree with it.

Not just when updating packages, but most importantly for me to catch
bugs in the portability of the package where the maintainer has only
tested on NetBSD.

Here are the numbers of utterly broken packages we would happily be
shipping binary packages of to users if we didn't have PLISTs, based
on most recent bulk builds:

  SunOS: 78
  Linux: 116
  Darwin: 138

To me it's a no-brainer.  PLISTs catch bugs and stop us shipping
broken packages, and I am hugely grateful for them.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com