[BRAINSTORMING] simplifying maintainer's life

[Thierry Thomas]

Le mer  3 sep 14 à 21:12:56 +0200, Marcus von Appen <mva at FreeBSD.org>
 écrivait :

> On, Wed Sep 03, 2014, Bryan Drewery wrote:

> [...]
> 
> > I understand there is fear involved with not having a plist validate
> > everything. Consider that many other package systems do not require a
> > plist to start.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Seconded. In my opinion for 95% of all cases it sums up to: everything in the
> staging directory gets installed. We can use post-build or pre-install to
> clean up the staging directory where necessary, or even revert the plist
> meaning in the worst case, e.g. everything in ${EXCLUDE_INSTALL} is not to be
> installed, if necessary.

I disagree. I use plist for two things:

- when upgrading a port, I compare the previous plist with the newer
  one, and if some important files are missing, I try to understand the
  reason;

- I often grep all plists to find which port could possibly provide such
  header or such library (among non-installed ports, of course).
-- 
Th. Thomas.
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