Opinions sought on location of bsd.octave.mk

[Sahil Tandon]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 13:56:36 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I am the maintainer of the octave-forge ports.  These all use a file
> called bsd.octave.mk.
> 
> Currently this is located in Mk.  But I have noticed that many ports
> have their bsd.*.mk files in one of their ports.  For example,
> bsd.mesalib.mk is in graphics/libGL.
> 
> What is accepted opinion on this?  Should I move bsd.octave.mk to
> math/octave-forge-base?  

As you note above, Mk scripts exist in various locations, so there
appears to be no consensus.  However, I personally agree with the
sentiment in the (somewhat dated) Wiki:

 http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsToDo#head-3834d3f3c000f64175eaac2e490a8e76f6a5a244

> If you think it should be moved, please tell me how strong your view
> is.  I am told that it requires quite a bit of effort to perform this
> change, because CVS has to track all these changes.

Unless there are strong *functional* motivations for making the change,
why bother?  Of course I may be missing some other nuance, but just my
2c since you asked for it. :-)

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at FreeBSD.org>