cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/py-dvdvideo Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/py-dvdvideo/files patch-dvdvideo-media.py

Ganael LAPLANCHE martymac at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 31 13:37:44 UTC 2012


On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:36:01 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote

Hi Alexey,

> I don't really see the necessity for `py-' prefix since the 
> ports serves user utility, not some library or plugin. 
>  PORTNAME is already set correctly
> (without the prefix).  Why port directory name bears it?
> 
> Users rarely care about which language was used to implement 
> tools the want to use.  So, one would probably look for "DVD 
> backup tool" under multimedia/dvd<something> (`sysutils' looks 
> less intuitive to me as well).

Hmmmm... We can read the following in the porter's handbook :

"Ports that install files under PYTHON_SITELIBDIR should use the pyXY-
package name prefix, so their package name embeds the version of Python
they are installed into." [1]

For consistency, I've just named the port directory the same way. But
you're right, this may be overkill (I originally named it
python-dvdvideo before I changed my mind). Do you think it should be
changed to, e.g. sysutils/dvdvideo (but, of course, keeping the pyXY-
prefix for package name) ? Others, any comment on that ?

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/using-python.html

Best regards,

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