Portlint complains about %%FOO%% in PLIST_FILES

[Rainer Hurling]

Yesterday I committed net/hblock [r556099] after changing the patch to 
PLIST_FILES (instead of pkg-plist with only two files) against the 
suggestion of the submitter.The line in question is:

PLIST_FILES=bin/${PORTNAME} %%MANPAGES%%man/man1/hblock.1.gz


I made this change because it allows the port to build and install 
correctly in all combinations of OPTIONS.

With the use of %%MANPAGES%%% in PLIST_FILES one can selectively enable 
and disable the building of manpages.

The maintainer of net/hblock informs me about a problem with using 
%%MANPAGES%% in PLIST_FILES. I don't know why I did not notice the 
message from 'portlint -AC' before:

FATAL: PLIST_FILES: files cannot contain %%FOO%% variables.  Use make 
variables and logic instead


Is it possibly correct to use %%MANPAGES%% in PLIST_FILES and only 
portlint can't handle it?

Is there an alternative to switching back to pkg-plist file?


Thanks in advance for clarification and maybe a suggestion for correct 
usage.

Regards,
Rainer Hurling