[Bug 193183] [STAGE] net/beacon: Request MAINTAINERship, pkg-descr cleanup

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--- Comment #27 from C Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to John Marino from comment #26)
> (In reply to C Hutchinson from comment #25)
> > (In reply to John Marino from comment #23)
> > > can you tell use what perllocal.pod.gz does and why we need it?
> > > Or why it's bad that it's compressed instead of plain text?
> > > 
> > > Why do we care about this file?
> > 
> > I (we) don't. But check-plist, and the port do. :)
> 
> 
> This is a completely bogus answer.
> If I don't want perllocal.pod.gz in the port, then I simply remove it in the
> post-install target.  I'm not forced to keep it.
> 
> As the maintainer, you should know exactly why this file is needed, or if
> it's needed.  If it's not, then just remove it and be done with it.

Sorry. Yes. Of course. It was intended tongue-in-cheek. I didn't know
you really cared.
It's a perlbrew||cpanminus -ism. I cobbled a Perl script to clean up this
very thing. But since it's empty (of documentation), it's harmless. So
I didn't think it worth bothering with. If it bothers you. I can deal
with the Module' extra entry, and bump it's version, to reflect that.
But IMHO, in the here-and-now. It doesn't really seem necessary.
Personally, I'm glad that this showed up. As I gained some useful
information, where man(1) && perldoc(1) pages are concerned, when
dealing with ports.

> 
> 
> > I only learned about MANCOMPRESSED from the porters documentation, when
> > I ran up against this issue. However. I became frustrated, when it
> > didn't work as anticipated/documented. It wasn't until I discovered
> > that the documentation omitted compress-man: as a prerequisite. That
> > it worked as intended.
> 
> I have never ever seen "compress-man" before.  I've never used it.  The
> documentation omits it because you aren't supposed to use it is my guess. 
> If I haven't seen it before, where are you getting told to use it?

I found compress-man: in many (recent STAGE'd ports). A quick grep(1) of
the ports tree, will reveal what I'm saying.
But don't worry. I have no intention of using it in the future. :)

Thanks for taking the time to review, and critique my submissions, John.

--Chris

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