cvs commit: ports/print/xdvi pkg-plist

[Doug Barton]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:20:15PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>'@unexec rmdir %D/... 2> /dev/null || true' form.
>>
>>How about adding support for something like
>>
>>  @emptydirrm share/texmf
>>
>>in pkg-plist to the port machinery (which may expand to the above, 
>>internally)?
> 
> 
> Some of us have talked about it, but the hurdle is that we'd require
> every port user to update to a new version of the pkg_tools, or they
> wouldn't be able to install ports that use it.  There's currently no
> mechanism for this.

So if we all agree it's useful, let's introduce the feature to pkg_tools
now, so that at some point down the road we can think about the process of
doing "something" so that it can be utilized. I can think of lots of ways to
do a flag day for this, but let's get the feature in the code now.

Doug

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