Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:44:16 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@freebsd.org> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>, Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vim ports broken. Message-ID: <e71790db0906240644ld85488o3bafd0bb03533d49@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A42256C.3030706@freebsd.org> References: <20090619093724.GH3582@obspm.fr> <28283d910906191559j95c1a32t2a76f5bd766594ad@mail.gmail.com> <h1o2ni$c2e$1@ger.gmane.org> <4A3FE24B.5080208@p6m7g8.com> <e71790db0906221523n366335b3sa440524b6a2e8e6c@mail.gmail.com> <e71790db0906231836g390bc94ar35b75c98f20600e5@mail.gmail.com> <4A42256C.3030706@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Frank J. Laszlo<laszlof@freebsd.org> wrote: > Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: [...] >> Opps, now I got it: the official 7.2.041 patch can not be applied >> cleanly so David provided a custom one. Choosing "%" to differentiate >> it, however, was a bad idea. It would be better to use a simple >> underscore. >> >> > > Why is % any worse than an underscore? As I explained earlier, fetch has no > problem dealing with it. The errors people were posting are server-side, > ftp.freebsd.org has no problems handling it. POLA: users get surprised by the "Bad Request" answer and think that the package is broken. So they complain at -ports, generating lengthy email threads. -- My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.
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