how to install a port without install: in the Makefile

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Fri Jan 23 06:19:57 PST 2009


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Max Brazhnikov <makc at issp.ac.ru> wrote:
> 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 :)

In soviet russia, alternative ways like you.

I wish people remembered KISS more than TIMTOWTDI.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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