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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:24:23 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r346114 - head/devel/p4.el
Message-ID:  <20140310072423.GC11693@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140226123420.f5c0d0ff40b404a70334da4b@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201402260657.s1Q6vEsH059562@svn.freebsd.org> <BEE32AF42CDC7ED09B7234F0@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20140226123420.f5c0d0ff40b404a70334da4b@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Taking one amongst many, the current practice is to mute the MKDIR
> > and not mute commands that install files. Would you mind respecting
> > that in the future ?

+1. :)

> This is just a matter of opinion. I've always preferred to see what is
> being installed or what direcories are being created. Even the example
> in the PHB doesn't mute the mkdir. Unless this gets correcte in the PHB
> I won't change this.

To be fair to Emanuel: our Ports Collection has a long tradition of muting
mkdir's; I cannot give a definitive answer to why, but I guess it does not
add too much of debug info (as something almost always goes into that dir,
and install commands should be vocal of course) yet clutters logs a bit at
the same time.

That said, I believe that better words to describe the best practice would
be "do not mute installation commands (inc. cp/cpio-based); mkdir's can be
muted unless you prefer them being vocal as well".

./danfe



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