Date: 10 Jul 1998 11:27:38 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/kdemultimedia Makefile ports/audio/kdemultimedia/patches patch-a0 patch-ab patch-ac patch-ag patch-ah Message-ID: <87pvfexdh1.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Andreas Klemm's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:20:38 %2B0200" References: <87r9zvpnoj.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> <199807100030.BAA19304@awfulhak.org> <19980710102038.A11716@klemm.gtn.com>
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Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> writes: > Thomas released a set of patches to Stefan and me. Stefan is a bit > overstressed at the moment. I had no time to test as well. So Thomas > and you did work for the port at the same time, but you won the > "game" by being the first who actually did the commit ;-) Sorry to butt in here (again ;-)), but that's not the reason. What got me going was the ``removed the patches because it compiles fine without them'' in the commit log. I tend to assume[1] that Stefan had a good reason to include them, apart from just making the port compile. In this case, they worked around a few idiosyncrasies of gmake. I think if the maintainer put some work into things like that, they're of some value to him and should be preserved, if possible. You have all the opportunity to do otherwise in your own ports. It's not a game who's fastest; some competition is fun, but sulking over it when you ``lose'' is just plain silly. In the end we all win when we can release a better product. tg [1] yes, I know. :-)
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