/usr/local/share/mk ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:20:11PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:37:20AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> ...
> > > Now, this may well be a one-of-a-kind case calling for an ad-hoc
> > > solution, but if all we need is accept to use ${PREFIX}/share/mk
> > > for third-party .mk files, this seems a better way to handle
> > > the problem.
> > 
> > After >10 years you are apparently the first person to want such a
> > feature, so this suggests the application is limited :)
> 
> possibly, yes. Or maybe there were other applications solved with
> other hacks - e.g.  (randomly browsing in /usr/share/mk), do the
> following really belong there:
> 
>     bsd.info.mk             - building GNU Info hypertext system
>     bsd.snmpmod.mk          - building modules for the SNMP daemon bsnmpd
> 
> They don't seem to be a part of the 'base' system unlike all
> the others.

?  Those are both used by components of the base.

> So... there is not a recursive INSTALL, maybe nobody asked for it,
> but certainly we have a lot of replicated constructs in the
> ports' makefiles, and some port maintainers with a lot of patience :)

OK, but I don't see what this has to do with your proposal.

Kris
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