Re: Removing excessive files from staging directory

On 2/3/26 15:33, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Hi Abi,
>
> Am Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 02:37:34PM +0300 schrieb abi:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm porting a program that puts unnecessary stuff in the staging directory,
>> for example
>>
>> ====> Checking for pkg-plist issues (check-plist)
>> ===> Parsing plist
>> ===> Checking for items in STAGEDIR missing from pkg-plist
>> Error: Orphaned: include/CxxUrl/string.hpp
>> Error: Orphaned: include/CxxUrl/url.hpp
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/base.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/jwt.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/boost-json/defaults.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/boost-json/traits.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/danielaparker-jsoncons/defaults.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/danielaparker-jsoncons/traits.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/defaults.h.mustache
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/kazuho-picojson/defaults.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/kazuho-picojson/traits.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/nlohmann-json/defaults.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/jwt-cpp/traits/nlohmann-json/traits.h
>> Error: Orphaned: include/picojson/picojson.h
>> Error: Orphaned: lib/cmake/CxxUrl/CxxUrlConfig.cmake
>> Error: Orphaned: lib/cmake/CxxUrl/CxxUrlConfigVersion.cmake
>> Error: Orphaned: lib/cmake/CxxUrl/CxxUrlTargets-%%CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%%.cmake
>> Error: Orphaned: lib/cmake/CxxUrl/CxxUrlTargets.cmake
>> Error: Orphaned: lib/libCxxUrl.a
>> Error: Orphaned: @dir cmake
>>
>>
>> What is the best way to deal with it?
> Some of these are bundled dependencies it seems.
> You should unbundle as many dependencies as possible when
> writing a port so that the dependencies are installed only
> once and can be kept up to date easily.
>
> You may need to add new ports for these unbundled dependencies.
> For example, CxxUrl is an independent project [1] that should be
> packaged and then the bundled copy should be replaced with a
> dependency to that package.
>
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
>
> [1]: https://github.com/chmike/CxxUrl
>

Aha, I knew something was fishy with the idea to delete excessive files. 
jwt-cpp is a bundled dependency as well [1]

[1]: 
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/devel/jwt-cpp/pkg-plist