how to install a port without install: in the Makefile

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Fri Jan 23 01:47:41 PST 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:
> * Florent Thoumie (flz at xbsd.org) wrote:
>
>> > If it's just a single file, the preferred way is to add
>> >
>> > PLIST_FILES=    bin/program_name
>> >
>> > to the Makefile and not use pkg-plist at all.
>>
>> No, no, no.
>>
>> This is not *preferred*.
>
> Is it not? Why? There's no reason to introduce pkg-plist for just
> a single file.

This is just an alternative way of doing it. I, for one, don't like
it. Same goes for PLIST_DIRS.

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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