A bit of discussion: Why don't we use a stage?

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday, 1. February 2005 01:26, Danny Pansters wrote:

> I wonder, are there pressing reasons not to do that (apart from marginally
> more space needed)?

Whether it's so marginal or not depends on the port I'd say. Especially if 
this stage were to be in an appropriate place (like /tmp), this will be 
problematic.

> Perhaps this is a stupid or bikeshed question but I've 
> wondered about this several times. Do I imagine a bigger gain than there
> would be in reality?

I think so. When working on creating or changing a port, you can always 
install stuff into a custom PREFIX, then go digging in there for potential 
issues - and apply changes you'd think would be useful to the build system of 
the port itself (and it's really easy enough to do that - at least I never 
wished for a staging area to mess around in).

However - the biggest reason there isn't a staging area is that there is none. 
It should be pretty straightforward to implement this by setting PREFIX, if 
you feel like hacking bsd.port.mk and submitting a PR with the results, feel 
free to go ahead.

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