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
