Ports with no pkg-plist files

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Sat Oct 16 14:12:50 PDT 2004


On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:32, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> Just as a footnote: I personally would prefer to keep the pkg-plist
> files around.  They greatly simplify the task of determining what files
> are provided by an uninstalled port (I use a script I wrote that takes
> advantage of these files for just this purpose, in fact).

Seems like your script needs a rewrite then. pkg-plist isn't the canonical way 
to provide the packing list, it's just the most simple one. Some ports 
require something less simple, for some even having a separate file is 
overkill.

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