svn commit: r353642 - head/math/sage

Eitan Adler eadler at freebsd.org
Sun May 11 05:16:10 UTC 2014


On 10 May 2014 20:19, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at freebsd.org> wrote:
> +pre-extract:
> +       @${ECHO_MSG}
> +       @${ECHO_MSG} \# The best way to build this port is to first type \"make build\".
> +       @${ECHO_MSG} \# If you type \"make\" or \"make install\", this will cause the building of a
> +       @${ECHO_MSG} \# package, which will take a considerable amount of time and space.
> +       @${ECHO_MSG}

I really dislike this approach.  If  user does not wish to create a
package they may install sage using 'pkg install'.  Teaching users to
bypass the package manager and directly install binaries without
registering the resulting package will create problems in the long
term.


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Eitan Adler
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