Re: enforcing pkgsrc/category/$PKGBASE

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Roland Illig wrote:

> David Brownlee schrieb:
> >     Wouldn't it be nice if each package was always in a directory
> >     which matched the $PKGBASE. It would make it much easier and
> >     quicker for tools (and people) to map back and forth between
> >     them, and also allow us to (potentially) cleanup the DEPENDS
> >     format:
> >
> >             DEPENDS+= www/p5-Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader>=0.19
>
> This is exactly what I had in mind for some months, but never dared to
> suggest. I think there are enough packages to justify this additional
> format.

        In case everything *except* the py-* and similar packages should
        be using it.

> >         rather than the current rather ugly:
> >
> >             DEPENDS+=
> > p5-Catalyst-Plugin-ConfigLoader>=0.19:../../www/p5-Catalys
> > t-Plugin-ConfigLoader
>
> And even this ugly case can be shortened a bit. The "../../" should be
> optional. It doesn't provide any value.

        Agreed. Theoretically it allows us to put packages one, three or
        more levels deep, but even then we should be able to normalise
        the path back to PKGSRCDIR before procssing the DEPENDS...

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