[pass] FreeBSD Platform File

[milki]

On 08:54 Sun 23 Sep     , Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:51 AM, milki <milki at rescomp.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> > With the recent updates, the size of the patches will decrease.
> > However, I do have a patch to remove clip() functionality because having
> > a dependency on X11 stuff is bad. I also have one one to remove git for
> > good measure, only because its an additional feature.
> 
> I'd rather it not be done this way, actually. I maintain the gentoo
> package of this, and over in gentoo world, we're super conscious about
> having USE flags for different features. We named our package system
> after yours -- Portage. Since xclip and git are only used with --clip
> and if the password store is already a git dir, it's a non-issue if
> they're not installed. So, make the package optionally have git and
> xclip as requirements, but don't go patching pass right and left as a
> consequence. Though you'd do this with a compiled program, it's just
> plain not necessary for a shell script.

My concern was if git/xclip were not installed as depdendencies, then
the man page, usage text, and program behaviour do not match anymore.
Unless there's runtime detection and/or warning messages, this could
confuse the user.

-- 
milki