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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:02:59 -0500
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/pinba_engine Makefile distinfo ports/devel/pinba_engine/files patch-src__ha_pinba.cc
Message-ID:  <20120112140259.GC52741@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F0EE5A8.3070808@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:52:40AM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/12/12 8:49 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:
> > If someone is doing that in practice it will break. There is no theory
> > discussion to be had here.
> >
> yes, but people do.

Then they are breaking things.

My desire in pointing out that it shouldn't be done is because
statements like what you made can be read by people who don't know any
better and cause further breakage.

Just because people do things doesn't make it the right thing to do. But
enough about this, let's get back to fixing real problems...

-- WXS



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