Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:06:10 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? Message-ID: <CADLo83_XpS=JS09faqG46-fo4J-A6dJaAVNM_=M24rkXdv4mHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <503A8F5B.9050706@shatow.net> References: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org> <503A8F5B.9050706@shatow.net>
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On 26 August 2012 22:04, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> wrote: > On 8/26/2012 4:02 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> The old Makefile headers, ala: >> >> # New ports collection makefile for: BIND 9.9.x >> # Date created: 27 January 2012 >> # Whom: dougb >> # >> # $FreeBSD: head/dns/bind99/Makefile 301487 2012-07-24 19:23:23Z dougb $ >> >> have not served a purpose for longer than almost anyone who has a ports >> commit bit has been around. My proposal is simple, let's remove >> everything before the # $FreeBSD$. >> >> In the past when this has been proposed the objection was that it would >> cause too much churn. If we had done this back when we had 5,000 ports >> then we would have solved the problem with less churn, and no drama for >> the 15,000 ports that followed. Every day we don't do this we make the >> "churn" problem worse, and deepen the roots of something that has no >> relevance. >> >> Can we please just deal with this now and be done with it? ... and yes, >> I am volunteering to help with and/or do the work myself. > > > Yes please. > > If we can't agree to mass delete them with churn, let's at least agree > to remove as we update ports, and in the template for new ports. > Now in the days of Subversion... we could do the entire tree in one lovely atomic commit! Chris
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