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From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  ports/news/tin Makefile ports/news/tin/files md5 ports/news/tin/patches patch-aa
In-Reply-To: <199611120639.WAA10258@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from Satoshi Asami at "Nov 11, 96 10:39:21 pm"
To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:30:20 +0000 (GMT)
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>  * Most complete way to not forget to change something is changing it
>  * in one place only and let make substitutions do all other changes for you.
> 
> I understand, didn't I write so in my mail?  Now tell me:
> 
> DISTNAME=	foo-1996
> PKGNAME=	bar-1996
> 
> What is the realistic chance of you changing foo and forgetting to
> change bar accordingly? :)
> 
> Satoshi
> 

It can easily be overlooked, but Satoshi is right. If things in other files
depend on this... either both lines need updating by hand, or inter-file
dependencies need to be automated.

Adam