Re: hwdata package

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> We seem to have grown two `hwdata' packages from
> https://github.com/vcrhonek/hwdata/ in the last month:
>
> - sysutils/hwdata
> - misc/hwdata

I don't have much of an opinion. ISTR that there was a package that
depended on sysutils/hwdata, maybe one of the XFCE ones? I may have
forgotten to record the dependency.

> - sysutils/hwdata uses buildlink3 while misc/hwdata does not; I think
>   it should use buildlink3 so downstream packages can get a limited
>   view of it exposed through buildlink3 (may require
>   BUILDLINK_FILES.hwdata+= share/* to work properly, not sure).

It uses buildlink3 because something (???) depended on it.

Vins, what do you think?