Jason Helfman wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Erwin Lansing<er...@freebsd.org> wrote:
[...]
That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm just a bit worried about
spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split
content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the
current WWW. I know we're not consistent already with things like
COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to
where these end up.
Erwin
With good ideas usually bloat is not too far behind. I think this is a
great idea, however I think it would be
worth considering a potential new file for this, that can be parsed without
causing too much new data in existing
files. Perhaps, a file named pkg-vendor. In this file, all sorts of
information can be places, and parsed or used
by our package infrastructure.
-jgh
I don't think the new file is a good idea. It means more than 20 000
more files in /usr/ports, so all fs related operations will be slower
(svn checkout, portsnap updated and extract or even ports.tar.gz extract)
And more space will be wasted just for a few new short lines of text
(about 4kB for each file of size in tens of bytes)
Miroslav Lachman
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