how to install a port without install: in the Makefile

Max Brazhnikov makc at issp.ac.ru
Fri Jan 23 05:23:03 PST 2009


On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:58:02 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:47:38 -0600, Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> * Florent Thoumie (flz at xbsd.org) wrote:
> >>> > If it's just a single file, the preferred way is to add
> >>> >
> >>> > PLIST_FILES=    bin/program_name
> >>> >
> >>> > to the Makefile and not use pkg-plist at all.
> >>>
> >>> No, no, no.
> >>>
> >>> This is not *preferred*.
> >>
> >> Is it not? Why? There's no reason to introduce pkg-plist for just
> >> a single file.
> >
> > This is just an alternative way of doing it. I, for one, don't like
> > it. Same goes for PLIST_DIRS.
>
> +1

You are lucky guys you have not lived in USSR. otherwise you'd surely like 
alternative ways :)

Max


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