Ports with no pkg-plist files

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:19:35 -0500, "Conrad J. Sabatier"
<conrads at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm a little out-of-date re: this stuff.  :-)
> 
> However, doing a subsequent scan of Makefiles turned up a large number
> of them that don't define any PLIST* variables.
> 
> In other words, the ports tree is rather inconsistent in this area, it
> seems.  The majority of ports still do have pkg-plist files, some have
> PLIST* variables defined, some don't.
> 
> I don't know what would be the preferred resolution to all of this,
> but it *is* a little disturbing, don't you think?

Just as a footnote: I personally would prefer to keep the pkg-plist
files around.  They greatly simplify the task of determining what files
are provided by an uninstalled port (I use a script I wrote that takes
advantage of these files for just this purpose, in fact).

I don't want to re-open any old discussions here, just tossing out my
$.02 worth.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"