With or without .packlist?

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 10 octobre 2013 08:10:45 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
wrote:
| Hi guys,
| 
| With the staging support, we can properly decide what we do pack or not
| inside the packages, the question now is do we keep the .packlist (in
| that case they need to be fixed because they are full of stage path :))
| or should we just drop those files and no package them at all.
| 
| It seems to me that most of the other operating systems are not packaging.
| 
| I have no clue what what those .packlist files are useful for, so I do
| have no opinion, would be nice to get a perl@ claim on this soon, as we
| either need to fix them or nuke them.
| 
| btw: sunpoet has a PR I'm sitting one because of that:
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/182806

Well, like I said in the PR history, I'm with Frédéric for dropping them.
In the mean time, you could do the exp-run, and see if something new breaks
so that we can fix that :-)

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Mathieu Arnold