Dynamic plists

[Sahil Tandon]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Rob Farmer wrote:

> I maintain math/scilab and am preparing to update it. This port has a
> huge plist (slightly under 15000 lines), hundreds of which change
> depending on what options are selected. It is a bit of a pain to
> update. The porters handbook makes vague reference to dynamic plists -
> so I was wondering, would this be a good idea? And if so, what is the
> best way to make one?

The reference is vague probably because static plists are generally
preferred. :-) But you can start by studying ports that pipe to
${TMPPLIST}; grep through the tree to find them.  Also be sure to review
the "advanced pkg-plist practices" section of the Porter's Handbook.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at FreeBSD.org>