[RFC] NO_INSTALL in meta-ports considered harmful

[N. Raghavendra]

At 2009-05-10T21:28:34Z, Marcin Wisnicki wrote:

> The proper way to make a metaport is to:
> 1. use only RUN_DEPENDS
> 2. set NO_BUILD
> 3. do *NOT* set NO_INSTALL
> 4. provide empty do-install target

In my personal metaports, I follow exactly the above prescription.
For example, I have a port opt/metalisp with the following Makefile
fragment:

RUN_DEPENDS=    \
${OPTBASE}/share/lisp/asdf/alexandria.asd:${PORTSDIR}/opt/alexandria \
${OPTBASE}/share/doc/cltl/cltl2.html:${PORTSDIR}/opt/cltl \
${OPTBASE}/share/lisp/asdf/trivial-gray-streams.asd:${PORTSDIR}/opt/tgstreams

NO_BUILD=       yes

do-install:
        @${DO_NADA}

.include <bsd.port.mk>

Raghavendra.

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