From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 19:52:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8B437B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8846943F3F for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:52:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030312035211053003bqlee>; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:52:13 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2C3qAHI008485 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:52:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2C3q9iu008482; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:52:09 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-comment all gone... References: <20030312030120.Y2461@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Mar 2003 22:52:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030312030120.Y2461@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> Message-ID: <44fzptnswm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Palfreman writes: > Not that I've got anything against it or anything, but I've noticed that > recent ports tree cvsups have wiped out most of the pkg-comment files. They were moved into the makefiles, to save inodes. > When did this policy change happen, because I can't see anything about > it from googling? No criticism though: I always found pkg-descr much > more useful. It has been discussed for many months now, and the changeover was first attempted some time ago. There's a lot of information in the mailing list archives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message