Subject: Re: Suggestion for new feature: PLIST macros
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/25/2006 13:39:09
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:14:21PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> Therefore I had the idea of just writing
> 
>     @everything_from share/doc/${PKGNAME}
> 
> instead of listing the 1000 files individually.

That might cause unexpected side effects. If somebody e.g. adds a patch
for the documentation and the installation installs the ".orig" file
by accident it will be noticed with a static package list and
"CHECK_FILES=yes". It won't be noticed with the above.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/