Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

[Baptiste Daroussin]

Hi all,

tijl@ spotted an interesting point, distinfo and pkg-descr files files
convenient are taking a lot of space for "free", we can reduce the size of the
while ports tree by a factor 2 by simply merging them into one of the other
files (Makefile and/or pkg-plist) from my testing it really devides
significantly the size of the tree.

Problem is how to merge them if we want to.

What we do not want to loose:
- Easyness of parsing distinfo
- Easyness to get informations about the description

so far I have not been able to figure out a user friendly way

Ideas I got so far only concerns pkg-descr:
Adding an entry in the Makefile for the WWW:
WWW= bla
or an entry in the plist: @www http...

for the description the Makefile is not suitable as multi line entry in
Makefiles are painful
Maybe a new keyword:
@descr <<EOD
mydesc
in 
multiline
EOD

which could easily be added to the plist parser in pkg. But I'm do not find that
very friendly in particular for make(1) to extract the data.

Concerning the distinfo I have no idea.

so this mail is a call of ideas :), if nothing nice ideas is found we will just
do nothing here :)

regards,
Bapt
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