git: beff5e37902f - main - sysutils/mackerel-agent: Update to 0.71.2

Koichiro Iwao meta at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 8 02:00:58 UTC 2021


Matt wrote:
> DIST_SUBDIR should only be used when the distribution files are not
> versionned or conflict with others, in this case, I don't see any 
> reason
> to use it.
> 
> Moreover, with all those distribution files, there is a good chance 
> that
> some other port needs the same file, using DIST_SUBDIR makes it
> impossible to share those files, and forces users to fetch the same
> things multiple times, somewhat defeating the reason of the distfiles
> directory.

Understood. Thanks for the advice. That is reasonable not to use
DIST_SUBDIR. I felt a single port putting many files directly under
distfiles directory looks clutter but your point is quite correct.

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