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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2002 08:03:15 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject:   Re: patch to have make clean not recurse in ${PORTSDIR}
Message-ID:  <20020506080315.S56612@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020502113722.X78658-100000@master.gorean.org>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:41:29AM -0700
References:  <20020501163325.R56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020502113722.X78658-100000@master.gorean.org>

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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:41:29AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:14:42PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > > 	I admire the determination shown by the proponents of this change,
> > > however, I can't help thinking that you've already spent way more time
> > > than it's worth. Your time would be better spent improving the existing
> > > documentation on this issue.
> >
> > If the behaviour is not changed, this thing will come back every
> > two months and each time people will try to find a solution for it.
> 
> 	I've already said several times that this problem does come up
> regularly, and will continue to come up. My objection to your proposed
> solution is that what it actually does is hide the problem by making
> something work that isn't really intended to.

What should the solution then do with it?

For me this solution is clear: it shows that there is a difference
between the ports-directories and a port-directory and acts according
to it.

Edwin
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