Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/kde3

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:56:34PM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:54:41PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:17:31AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > We don't need to set "DISTFILES" for a meta package.
> > 
> > Right. It would be nice if someone could go over the meta packages and
> > drop the now redundant junk and mark them all with META_PACKAGE=yes
> > instead.
> 
> We wouldn't have to do all of that, and keep doing it in the future, if
> we used an automated means of deciding whether a package was a
> meta-package or not.
> 
> Like all of: no distfiles, no patches, empty PLIST...

Problem is that that list changed over time and at least some of the
meta-packages did get some parts of that wrong. E.g. look for the old
"make checksum" in databases/postgresql?? bug.

Joerg