Ports with LOCAL/xxx as a MASTER_SITE

[Chris H]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 01:13:31 -0800 Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote

> I came across a few ports like this. Most recently www/npm. It usually 
> turns out that some slightly modified version of sources is kept there @ 
> LOCAL/xxxx.
> 
> Why not just have the patches under files/ do the modification, so that 
> it is public and reproducible? There are also GitHub and Bitbucket, 
> among other places, to keep sources. There should be no need to allow 
> LOCAL/xxx as a MASTER_SITE nowadays.
> 
> I suggest to abolish this practice. Begin with adding a warning to the 
> port infrastructure when LOCAL/xxx is specified.
> 
> (It makes it more difficult to suggest the patch to such port, because 
> outsiders should first "reverse-engineer" the patches, which should have 
> been there in files/ in the first place.)
I'd have to disagree. It's used for other things, as well.
In fact, most of my experience with it, has been that someone with
a commit bit, is often hosting the source it self.

My .02¢ on the matter, anyway.

> 
> Yuri
> 
--Chris