Subject: Re: two minor changes to X.org packages
To: Adam Ciarcinski <adam@albedo.art.pl>
From: Kouichirou Hiratsuka <hira@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/01/2005 19:40:24
At Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:52:29 +0200 (CEST),
Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I've committed the following two changes to X.org packages.
> >>>
> >>> 1) Unify PLIST. (xorg-libs and xorg-server)
> >>> Old PLIST.* entries exist between `@comment begin ${NAME}'
> >>> and `@comment end ${NAME}' in PLIST. If ${NAME} is added
> >>> to XORG_PLIST_ENTRY, these entries are left in PLIST.
> >>
> >> Why was this done? It seems to add more complexity where the previous
> >> structure was enough, directly supported by pkgsrc and currently
> >> "enforced" in it.
> >
> > Well, this is much better than before, because we have 1 PLIST file and not
> > 8 files, and it works as before for our supported platforms.
> >
> > If you want to improve it, please feel free to modify it.
>
> I actually prefer the old approach, where I could easily "diff" different
> PLISTs. Now it makes things a little more complicated. :]
>
Hi,
I prefer the new one, because PKGDIR is very clean. And I don't
feel difficulty to the maintenance of the PLIST.
However, surely, it is complicated. If many people have objection
to the new method, I'll back out :-)
best regards.