ports/63059: linux-flashplugin LATEST_LINK and RESTRICTED fixes

[Oliver Eikemeier]

The following reply was made to PR ports/63059; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon at dvalentine.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/63059: linux-flashplugin LATEST_LINK and RESTRICTED fixes
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:51:02 +0100

 Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
 > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:31:36AM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 > 
 >>Ok, I understand what should be done here. May I make two suggestions:
 > 
 > Thanks for reviewing this, Oliver.
 
 You are welcome. Thanks for your explanations.
 
 >>- it would be nice to have the link creation in a pkg-install script,
 >> since the autodetection fails if the port is installed from a package
 > 
 > The port sets NO_PACKAGE and RESTRICTED.  Do I still need to worry about
 > pkg-install time?  =)
 
 Maybe. Users might decide to build packages locally (eg to update multiple
 machines, like a lab).
 
 >>- a more-or-less short comment what would be removed and why wouldn't be 
 >>bad,
 >> (especially because this may remove symlinks not created by the port).
 >> I'm not sure where to place this comments, though. Perhaps the pkg-install
 >> script where the links are created is a good place.
 > 
 > I'm not sure where the best place to put this is either.  Should I just
 > put a comment in the Makefile or do I need to print a warning to the
 > user at install time?
 
 No, I guess users aren't really interested. It's more stupid committers asking
 the same stupid questions over & over again.
 
 Maybe you want to include some of this in the next revision.
 
 Oliver