On 28/10/2013 09:58, John Marino wrote: > On 10/28/2013 09:53, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> On 28/10/2013 09:47, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote: >>> W dniu 2013-10-28 09:41, Dominic Fandrey pisze: >>> >>>> Neither staging nor license management are described in the Porters' >>>> Handbook. >>>> >>>> Why again should we bother to support it? >>>> >>>> What happened to "the feature that is not documented doesn't exist"? >>> >>> Lack of good documentation is real problem for me to convert ports to >>> staging. Porter's Handbook is seriously lagging behind recent changes - >>> staging, license management, shabang fixes, etc. >> >> If it was up for a vote, I'd vote for a feature stop until the PH >> is back in a decent condition. >> >> Kudos to the people who documented the new options framework. >> > > For all intents and purposes - licensing "feature" doesn't exist. The > same issues you are raising have been raised before. Apparently the > full licensing infrastructure is still lacking so it's in some kind of > limbo. > > However, converting to stagedir is reasonably documented here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir
That's a handfull. What about installers that hard-code directories during install? > You don't have a choice with supporting stage -- new ports without stage > aren't accepted. So that's why you have to bother. :) That doesn't sound acceptable, considering the feature isn't even mentioned in the Porters' Handbook. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"