From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 28 17:37:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0953937B424; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA91912; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:37:49 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Will Andrews , Kris Kennaway , committers@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Guidelines for new port version variables Message-ID: <20000928173749.B91871@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20000928120954.C89733@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000928191657.R30130@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000928191657.R30130@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:16:57PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:16:57PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:09:55PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > Please update doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ so we can find > > the new policy. > > David, please stop whining that you didn't have time to read the > proposal or make your objections/suggestions in time for its adoption. Uh Will just what does requesting that something be DOCUMENTED in the OFFICAL way mean whining about time??? Just today someone was asking about the new rules. Since it was not in the Porter's Handbook they could not just look there. Remember that Handbook is our guidlines and I might even aruge if it isn't in there is isn't policy. Unwritten policy isn't very useful. > Just because it's not written down doesn't mean it isn't a rule. If > Satoshi puts it in bsd.port.mk, it is a rule. WRONG. How can bsd.port.mk state policy? It *supports* the policy. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message