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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:26:19 +0100
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        gahr@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r346114 - head/devel/p4.el
Message-ID:  <DFEB9572E7FDBD5D68FF49E0@ogg.in.absolight.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140310141659.GG11135@gahrfit.gahr.ch>
References:  <201402260657.s1Q6vEsH059562@svn.freebsd.org> <BEE32AF42CDC7ED09B7234F0@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20140226123420.f5c0d0ff40b404a70334da4b@FreeBSD.org> <20140310072423.GC11693@FreeBSD.org> <f8e85ff21f349babc099b00d8207a8b2@apnoea.adamw.org> <3D82157DD87FC9C0C7724278@ogg.in.absolight.net> <20140310141659.GG11135@gahrfit.gahr.ch>

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+--On 10 mars 2014 15:16:59 +0100 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| On 2014-Mar-10, 14:38, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +--On 10 mars 2014 08:32:52 -0400 Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
|> wrote:
|> | On 2014/03/10 03:24, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
|> |> 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 ?
|> |> 
|> |>> 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.
|> | 
|> | Alexey -
|> | 
|> | You make this request every few days, it seems, and the response is
|> | always the same: it's not in the PHB.
|> | 
|> | You should put it there. It SHOULD be policy. We should strive for
|> | consistency across ports. The ports tree should present a unified
|> | experience for all ports, for all users.
|> 
|> Yes, sorry, it's not in the PHB yet, I'm at section 6.7 at the momment,
|> and I'm updating things as I go.
|> 
|> (And yes, if you're applying old policies from chapters 1 to 5, you
|> should go and have a look, things may have changed.)
| 
| ports-policy-change-announce@ comes to mind :) Has anybody else ever felt
| the desire to get notified whenever a policy is updated? Just to avoid
| having to skim through commit logs.

Well, ports-announce@ should exist, but it's a bit like ports-commiters@
people will always complain that they've never seen the email, and have not
been told in person...

The changes I did were just garbage collecting old things, getting bits
up-to-date with what the current policies have been for quite some time,
things like that.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold



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