Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists?

[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Thierry Thomas wrote:
> >- if for some reason the port becomes uncomplete on certain platforms
> >or after an upgrade, because a file is not built, we don't notice it.
> > => 6 negative aspects.
> 
> And if for any reason (=wrong logic on plist creation) the dynamic 
> package list includes some extraneous (maybe manually created) files, 
> they'll be deleted after an upgrade.
> => 7 negative aspects.

The plist has be created before the install happens so I don't think
the obvious way to do this isn't actually possiable.  Even if you could
install before creating your plist, it would be fairly obviously wrong
to trust anything outside your port skeleton's working directory.

-- Brooks

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