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

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Wed Dec 17 10:48:26 PST 2008


* Garrett Cooper (yanefbsd at gmail.com) wrote:

> > 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 :\?
Not getting rid but generating automatically. Many ports already
have no pkg-plist.

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