On 03/19/13 22:15, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Stuart Cassoff wrote on Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:43:35AM -0400: >> On 03/17/13 17:45, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >>> as suggested by pascal@ and sthen@, i have updated the patch to use >>> >>> +VERSION = 1.22.2 >>> +SUBST_VARS = VERSION >>> +DISTNAME = groff-${VERSION} >>> >>> to avoid PLIST churn on future updates. > >> I wonder why not install in groff instead of groff-$ver ? > > Using ${PREFIX}/share/groff/${VERSION}/{font,tmac,...} by default is > an upstream decision, presumably such that different groff versions on > different machines can use a shared network file system ${PREFIX}/share. > For the OpenBSD port, that does seem pointless, and shortening the path > to just ${PREFIX}/share/groff/{font,tmac,...} might seem attractive. > > Probably, it might be possible to manipulate FONTPATH, MACROPATH, > and COMMON_WORDS_FILE (for the binaries) and FONTDIR and MACRODIR > (for the documentation) and may be a few more variables at configure > time to install into non-standard paths. However, that is likely to > increase the number of porting bugs and to make maintenance and > communication with upstream more difficult, for IMHO rather little > gain. > > So i'd prefer to stick with the upstream naming conventions > below ${PREFIX}/share/groff even tough they look slightly ugly. > > Yours, > Ingo > >
Ok, thanks for your response! Stu