When to use TMPPLIST instead of pkg-plist?

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:06:19PM +0100, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> Hello ports@,
> 
> recently I saw TMPPLIST being used for a relatively simple fonts port
> instead of pkg-plist to keep track of files to be installed by a port. I am
> quite surprised because I've always thought that this mechanism is reserved
> for special cases such as autoplist for Python packages.
> 
> Do we have any (perhaps unwritten) policy for when to use TMPPLIST? And when
> should a port maintainer stick to pkg-plist?

We do not.  A port maintainer should stick to pkg-plist.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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