Subject: Re: Improving PLIST infrastructure code
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/06/2006 15:02:07
Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> I'd like to improve the PLIST generation code in bsd.pkg.mk.  I plan to
> do the following steps:
> 
> (1) Split out the PLIST-related code from bsd.pkg.mk into bsd.plist.mk.
> 
> (2) Split out the numerous examples of script-in-a-variable into helper
>     scripts that are called from the various make targets.
> 
> (3) Do the dance of joy.
> 
> Any comments or objections to this?

Great idea. There are some other pkgsrc subsystem lying around in
bsd.pkg.mk that could be moved into their own files. I have been
thinking about developer.mk and debug.mk already.

Roland