# CPack.Info.plist.in seems to be unused
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256 "2022-03-21T02:03:30Z")
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### Author:  [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256/1 "2022-03-21T02:03:30Z")
Does anyone know the purpose of the file at `Modules/Internal/CPack/CPack.Info.plist.in` in CMake’s repository? I can’t find anything that seems to reference it. I’m not even sure if it was ever actually used, even though it is mentioned in a comment in `CPack.cmake` (and that appears to be the only place it is and has ever been referenced).
@brad.king
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### Author:  [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256/2 "2022-03-21T04:24:58Z")
Looks like `CPack.Description.plist.in`, `CPack.DS_Store.in`, and various other `CPack.*` template files are unused as well, so they are all potentially part of the same set of incomplete/removed functionality.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256/3 "2022-03-21T06:49:53Z")
FWIW, I see references in [`b1a74218401a6d990b570cae8141cad97fb8dc19`](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/commit/b1a74218401a6d990b570cae8141cad97fb8dc19) from 2004 at least. No idea when it stopped being used, but it seems it was used at some point.
Nevermind, that is for the `Info.plist` file. No idea where these other ones come into the picture.
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### Author:  [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256/4 "2022-03-21T16:16:54Z")
I think the deprecated `Source/CPack/cmCPackPackageMakerGenerator.cxx` uses these files, but constructs their name programmatically. See the `CopyResourcePlistFile` calls.
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### Author:  [@craig.scott](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/craig.scott)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-info-plist-in-seems-to-be-unused/5256/5 "2022-03-21T20:09:47Z")
Fantastic, thanks. That was the info I was looking for. I thought there might be some sort of programmatic use, but had no success finding it earlier.