Re: misc/pciids is redundant?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I agree it seems redundant, but it looks liek the pciids one is newer:
>
> diff -u /usr/pkg/share//pciids/pci.ids /usr/pkg/share//pciutils/pci.ids
> --- /usr/pkg/share//pciids/pci.ids	2015-09-07 08:05:25.000000000 -0400
> +++ /usr/pkg/share//pciutils/pci.ids	2016-02-15 19:52:18.000000000 -0500
> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> #
> #	List of PCI ID's
> #
> -#	Version: 2015.09.07
> -#	Date:    2015-09-07 03:15:01
> +#	Version: 2014.11.08
> +#	Date:    2014-11-08 03:15:02

HYeah, I did my date-comparison _after_ having run the update utility...

> > A newer version of that file is provided by the sysutils/pciutils
> > package as share/pciutils/pci.ids (along with a utility to fetch the
> > newest version of the file without having to update the package!).
>
> I am not thrilled about a utility to update, since it presumably writes
> to files where the checksum was recorded.

Yeah.  That might complicate package removal...

> > Seems to me that we should just remove misc/pciids
>
> It does seem like we should figure out how to not have dups.
> And, it may be better to have them split vs merged since if what you
> need is the id file, pciutils is too much.
>
> One minor issue is that several things depend on pciids, but that's just
> about adjusting dependencies and paths.
>
> Overall I would be tempted to drop pciid file from pciutils and make it
> depend on pciids.

Yeah, that would be good.



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