how to install a port without install: in the Makefile

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Jan 23 04:58:02 PST 2009


On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:47:38 -0600, Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:

> 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.

+1

Cheers,
Mezz


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