When to use TMPPLIST instead of pkg-plist?

[Bob Eager]

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On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:15:33 +0100
Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:06:19PM +0100, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hello ports@,
> > 
> > recently I saw TMPPLIST being used for a relatively simple fonts
> > port instead of pkg-plist to keep track of files to be installed by
> > a port. I am quite surprised because I've always thought that this
> > mechanism is reserved for special cases such as autoplist for
> > Python packages.
> > 
> > Do we have any (perhaps unwritten) policy for when to use TMPPLIST?
> > And when should a port maintainer stick to pkg-plist?  
> 
> We do not.  A port maintainer should stick to pkg-plist.
> 

Presumably except for a very short pkg-plist, in which case, using
PLIST_FILES is still OK.
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