Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:07:38 -0600 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sign your name in pkg-descr is useless or useful? Message-ID: <opr5fja0ji8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200403251158.13595.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <opr5eiuf0f8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> <200403251158.13595.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:58:09 +0100, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 06:00, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > >> I think, it's useless because most of us don't do it. Also, we already >> have the Whom: and MAINTAINER in the Makefile. It seems to me that sign >> our name in it is making no sense for pkg-descr as in description file. > > It is of some use while browsing the package descriptions in sysinstall > - no way to look at MAINTAINER or port Makefiles there. But as you > already quoted, it is recommended, not required. Well, it's mislead because a lot of us think it was author. Put maintainer name in a description file is just not right and make no sense at all, IMO. Cheers, Mezz -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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