svn commit: r375258 - head/comms/owfs

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 23 08:32:57 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 09:16:44AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 02:05:42AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 06:37:58PM +0000, Pawel Pekala wrote:
> > Why does it use bogus "gmake:lite"?  I'd really want to see these
> > obnoxious *-lite ports gone.  I didn't find the reasoning for :lite
> > in the PR, did I miss it (if yes, how feasible would it be to fix it
> > properly)?
> 
> gmake:lite is only usefull and should only be used to avoid chicken/egg
> problems basically it has been created for anything gmake can depend on
> which may itself only be buildable with gmake (textinfo for example) it
> should not at all be used in all other cases.

How feasible would be to patch textinfo and friends from gnumake'isms?  I
am willing to investigate; having a separate `devel/gmake-lite' leaf port
both looks strange and people would want to use it without giving it much
thought.

./danfe

P.S.  Baptiste, what had happened to your comma key recently?  It would be
a lot easier to read through your letters if you would've used them.


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