svn commit: r424123 - in head/deskutils: py-spice-gtk spice-gtk spice-gtk/files

[Gerald Pfeifer]

[ Old mail alert, but still relevant. ]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>>> Can't we just use lib/pkgconfig already?  Having to patch every port
>>> to move it to libdata/pkgconfig is pointless extra work with zero benefit.
>>> Nobody cares that these files are in libdata.  
>> 
>> Well, we do care. hier(7) says:
>> 
>>                 lib/      shared and archive ar(1)-type libraries
>> 
>>                 libdata/  miscellaneous utility data files
> Yeah I know what hier says, but libdata is just not worth fighting for.
> There are more important things to do in the ports tree than worrying
> about where pkgconfig files should go.  Nobody cares where they are.
> Not really.  Just look at all the other non-library files in lib:
> 
> find /usr/local/lib -type f -not -name '*.so*' -not -name '*.a' -not -name '*.la' -not -path '*python*' -not -path '*perl*'
> 
> Thousands of files you never cared about or even knew were there.
> 
> lib/pkgconfig is fine and allows us to remove hacks and patches from
> thousands of ports.  The cost of all the work needed to move the files
> and the time spent on threads like this are not worth the benefit
> because there is no benefit (that I can think of, maybe you can name
> one?).

Amen.

The majority of my ports carry hacks for libdata, and a quick check 
of the entire tree quite confirms Tijl's assessment of how expensive 
this really is (even if only a rough estimate):

  % grep -ri libdata $PORTSDIR | egrep -v "pkg-plist|\.mk|\.svn" | wc -l
  942

Any chance to see this changed per Tijl's proposal?

Gerald