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On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> If it's unconditionally included, how does that exempt it from exp-runs?
> 
> Surely it's equally risky to commit to it as bsd.port.mk, or have I missed
> something?

In a perfect world we'd have -exp runs for everything, I suppose.  OTOH
here in the real world there's plenty of lower-risk changes that can be
done without.  If in doubt, we can always do one.

Take a look a the various commits in ports/Mk for examples of what's
been done in the past.

mcl