[PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Jeremy Messenger (mezz7 at cox.net) wrote:

>> So if I understand correctly, you're proposing to only use dynamic
>> plist generation for the ports that support it without modification,
>> i.e. autotools-based?
>>
>> My opinion is that we should support the feature for all ports, or don't
>> support it at all. Only getting rid of ~5k pkg-plists is not a huge
>> accomplishment considering the mess it causes and I doubt it's worth
>> the work on adding the feature to port.mk and then rebuilding and
>> testing all affected ports. Being able to forget about pkg-plists
>> once and forever however would be a huge accomplishment and if that's
>> possible it should be done sooner or later.
>
> I object on get rid of pkg-plist. I depend on pkg-plist too much. I think 
> it's important for us to keep on track where the files/directories are.

It's useful for me too sometimes, but it's already not 100% reliable,
as some ports still generate it dynamically, some use PLIST_FILES, some
use PLIST_SUB so it's not apparent under which path and/or name the file
mentioned in plist is actually installed.

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