From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 5 15: 3:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B60037B40A; Sun, 5 May 2002 15:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524BB2B83C; Mon, 6 May 2002 00:03:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9E540345; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:03:15 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 08:03:15 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Doug Barton Cc: Maxime Henrion , ports@FreeBSD.org, Kent Stewart Subject: Re: patch to have make clean not recurse in ${PORTSDIR} Message-ID: <20020506080315.S56612@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020501163325.R56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020502113722.X78658-100000@master.gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020502113722.X78658-100000@master.gorean.org>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:41:29AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:41:29AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:14:42PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > > I admire the determination shown by the proponents of this change, > > > however, I can't help thinking that you've already spent way more time > > > than it's worth. Your time would be better spent improving the existing > > > documentation on this issue. > > > > If the behaviour is not changed, this thing will come back every > > two months and each time people will try to find a solution for it. > > I've already said several times that this problem does come up > regularly, and will continue to come up. My objection to your proposed > solution is that what it actually does is hide the problem by making > something work that isn't really intended to. What should the solution then do with it? For me this solution is clear: it shows that there is a difference between the ports-directories and a port-directory and acts according to it. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message