Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports

[Eitan Adler]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:30, Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> That sounds like an excellent idea.  I'm just a bit worried about
>> spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split
>> content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the
>> current WWW.  I know we're not consistent already with things like
>> COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to
>> where these end up.
>
> Apart from spreading this information into to many places (pkg_desc seams
> a proper place to have such information), why have the Makefile double up
> as a database?

pkg_descr is free form.  Makefiles are parsable (make -V).


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Eitan Adler