Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:29:54 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patches/ handling Message-ID: <20000608112954.A39511@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <8hmnoj$1loe$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:01:23AM %2B0200 References: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000607202517.D15229@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000607134522.A353@FreeBSD.org> <20000607205859.A16247@cichlids.cichlids.com> <8hmnoj$1loe$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>
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On Thu 2000-06-08 (02:01), Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > I only change the behaviour of these to a way more useful way. > > And that is subject to disagreement. As has been pointed out, this > "more useful way" reduces maintainability. It has also been argued, and > I agree, that the whole feature should just be removed. I don't think there's disagreement. The proposed behaviour is more useful than the previous behaviour, which is the specific case of architecture-dependent patches. I do agree that the "feature" isn't necessary at this time, and quite possibly may never be. I'd be interested to see the usage of such in the NetBSD tree, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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