Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/py-Scientific-doc

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

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:38:39PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 09:54:45AM -0700, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > Actually, I disagree - we need to talk about this, as the practice of
> > copying information from the PLIST into the Makefile, having to
> > maintain information in 2 places, and in general muddying the waters
> > between a list of files in the package (the PLIST) and the
> > instructions for building the whole package -- these 2 need to be kept
> > distinct, both logically and physically.
> > 
> > If AUTO_MKDIRS isn't working properly, let's fix it, and then make it
> > the default, please
> 
> Consider the typical example of
>     ${BSD_INSTALL_PROG} foo ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/bin
> 
> This will complete successfully, whether bin is a directory or not.
> With AUTO_MKDIRS, removing the PLIST, touching it, running stage-install
> and then print-PLIST > PLIST will have a different result compared to
> just stage-install. As such, I consider the part about creating bin a
> very important and explicit part of the build instructions.

To put this differently: I strongly prefer a dumb PLIST that can always
be regenerated over a semi-smart PLIST that must exist to build the
package. The PLIST is already redundant, so the argument for removing
essential build instructions from the Makefile doesn't cut for me.

Joerg