Add distinfo in +CONTENTS?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:57:42AM +0200, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:25:23PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > What do anyone think of add distinfo (filename, md5, sha256 and size) in  
> > the +CONTENTS?
> 
> As I see the idea of the +CONTENTS file is to store what the port has
> installed, but the original archive has nothing to do with that. So I
> guess +CONTENTS is not the appropriate place for this.

I don't think the package is the right place to put this.  The package
may not have even been installed from a ports collection on the user
system.

Kris
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