svn commit: r364113 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg

[Guido Falsi]

On 08/07/14 19:05, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:50:49 -0400 Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> On 6 Aug, 2014, at 1:36, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote: 
>>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>>> On 5 Aug, 2014, at 10:56, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>> - Directories can be listed in the plist like files they will be
>>>>> considered like @dirrmtry
>>>>
>>>> That one is exciting! Do they still need to appear in the same way
>>>> (i.e. at the end of the plist, in reverse-order)?
>>>
>>> pkg never had this limitation :)
>>
>> I am constantly amazed at the tremendous progress that pkgng has
>> achieved. The problem is, a lot of these improvements aren’t documented
>> anywhere, so it’s hard to know what new paradigms we have at our
>> disposal!
>>
>> Although I suppose that until pkg_install is fully deprecated (< 1
>> month now, yay!), it’s best that we not go crazy with incompatible
>> plist changes.
> 
> We should probably have a discussion in September about what to do
> with the newly acquired freedom.  For instance, there are way too many
> tiny files in the ports tree that slow down subversion operations and
> take up way too much disk space (smallest file size on default FreeBSD
> install these days is 4KiB).  I think we should move distinfo into the
> Makefile, combine all pkg-* files into one Pkgfile (using ucl syntax
> maybe?) and combine patches per feature instead of one patch per file.
> I'd like to get rid of the files directory too, at least in most cases.
> 

I'd live the pkg-plist alone. It's quite handy for grepping, and most
ports have medium sized plists. For tiny plists we already have Makefile
variables.

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Guido Falsi <madpilot at FreeBSD.org>