[PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:
> * Jeremy Messenger (mezz7 at cox.net) wrote:
>
>>> So if I understand correctly, you're proposing to only use dynamic
>>> plist generation for the ports that support it without modification,
>>> i.e. autotools-based?
>>>
>>> My opinion is that we should support the feature for all ports, or don't
>>> support it at all. Only getting rid of ~5k pkg-plists is not a huge
>>> accomplishment considering the mess it causes and I doubt it's worth
>>> the work on adding the feature to port.mk and then rebuilding and
>>> testing all affected ports. Being able to forget about pkg-plists
>>> once and forever however would be a huge accomplishment and if that's
>>> possible it should be done sooner or later.
>>
>> I object on get rid of pkg-plist. I depend on pkg-plist too much. I think
>> it's important for us to keep on track where the files/directories are.
>
> It's useful for me too sometimes, but it's already not 100% reliable,
> as some ports still generate it dynamically, some use PLIST_FILES, some
> use PLIST_SUB so it's not apparent under which path and/or name the file
> mentioned in plist is actually installed.

Getting rid of the plist files will force a major rewrite of
pkg_install. Are you really comfortable doing that :\?
-Garrett