Opinions sought on location of bsd.octave.mk

[Olli Hauer]

On 2011-07-03 20:56, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I am the maintainer of the octave-forge ports.  These all use a file called
> bsd.octave.mk.
> 
> Currently this is located in Mk.  But I have noticed that many ports have their
> bsd.*.mk files in one of their ports.  For example, bsd.mesalib.mk is in
> graphics/libGL.
> 
> What is accepted opinion on this?  Should I move bsd.octave.mk to
> math/octave-forge-base?  I am also thinking of renaming it bsd.octave-forge.mk,
> 
> If you think it should be moved, please tell me how strong your view is.  I am
> told that it requires quite a bit of effort to perform this change, because CVS
> has to track all these changes.
> 

If i look at the history of bsd.octave.mk then I see only small changes
over a long timeframe, so I think Mk is a good central place.

But I can also think of a location in math/octave-forge and doing
all other ports via a MASTER/SLAVE part since bsd.octave.mk
contains only a view dependencies and other instructions.
In Master/Slave you could simply maybe most of the other ports.

And yes, a move should be done via repocopy

--
olli