cvs commit: ports/archivers/hs-zip-archive Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-binary Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-darcs/files patch-Setup.lhs patch-darcs.cabal ports/devel/hs-darcs Makefile distinfo pkg-d

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> As Dmitry already said, and as was outlined before on a number of
> occasions, port directory name, PORTNAME, and PKGNAME can be not equal
> to each other (with port directory name being completely independent).

Yes, thanks for the note. There's, for example, multimedia/clive1 port
that has PKGNAMEPREFIX defined, so after installation it'll be named
py26-clive. I remember mailing its maintainer about this too, but he
insisted that port should have prefix as it installs python modules.

I still disagree with that - prefixes should indicate that the specific
port is ONLY a module and is used ONLY for development and as a
dependency - that's pretty clear and useful policy.

Thus while leaving PKGNAMEPREFIX=hs- for e.g. darcs, while having the
port in devel/darcs will ease life for users who want to install it,
this brings up other problems, such as not seeing expected darcs-X.Y.Z
in pkg_info and not being able to do `portupgrade darcs-*`, so I really
think it should not have any prefix at all, along with other end-user
ports.

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