What `gnometarget` is bsd.gnome.mk?

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

Koop Mast wrote on 09.08.2011 14:27:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:13 +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>> Koop Mast wrote on 09.08.2011 13:53:
>>> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 13:31 +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote on 09.08.2011 10:39:
>>>>> On 8/8/11 3:10 PM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This component is defined in _USE_GNOME_ALL and i see it in USE_GNOME in
>>>>>> some ports. But it doesn't seemed used. What it's for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS. I wasn't able to find anything in Porters Handbook and GNOME porting
>>>>>> guide.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like this can be removed now.  We used to have a special
>>>>> CONFIGURE_TARGET for GNOME ports.  If you look back through CVS history
>>>>> you can see what this did.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Here is the ports, that define USE_GNOME, and `gnometarget` is the only
>>>> component, so USE_GNOME may be eliminated completely in this ports:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/vpeX4r8K
>>>>
>>>> All the other ports that define `gnometarget` in USE_GNOME along with
>>>> other components:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/7j3FcEM7
>>>>
>>>> Should i make pr, patches?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just reverted this commit since it broke 553 ports. I filed a pr
>>> 159624 to track this issue.
>>>
>>> -Koop
>>
>> Ok. To be honest i didn't requested the deletion, just was curious what
>> it is for :).
>>
>
> Well you brought it to our attention, that is enough in my book :)
> Anyway if you want to make a patch for this for all the ports, feel free
> to attach it to the pr. If not, someone will deal with this.
>
> -Koop

Sure i'll do this next two days. Just tell me some details about how 
this patch should look like. Should it be some monolithic diff against 
/usr/ports or it should be something to apply against single categories 
like /usr/ports/audio etc? The patch may lose it's actuality very fast 
in first case imho.

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Regards,
Ruslan