Subject: Re: PLIST format
To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@gmail.com>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/13/2007 17:57:48
Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Has anyone had a thought that pkgsrc PLIST format should be similar to
> ``sets/lists'' format?  The point is that path is written from column
> 0, like:
> 	bin/foobar
> not like
> 	${HAVE_HOGE}bin/foobar
> 
> Possible new format would look like:
> 	bin/foobar				hoge
> This improves readability and grep'ability.

We currently have about 1000 files with white-space in their names, so 
the new syntax leads to new problems.

$ grep PLIST: pkgsrc.grep | grep ":[a-z].* " | wc -l
      998

Roland