Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:30:51 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UPDATING Message-ID: <CADLo839UR%2BNAO51RvG-rFi_cNOg4B8E-ePtFnognOn_SSDndPg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50D83D0A.3030105@onetel.com> References: <2056641356295776@web16h.yandex.ru> <CAEAhP2gLYXHwe4yUDjOSDqGJwXcxUHfya2X6Hv7EE7y2LmqsLg@mail.gmail.com> <50D83D0A.3030105@onetel.com>
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On 24 December 2012 11:31, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > On 24/12/2012 06:52, Anton Afanasyev wrote: >> >> I second this. >> While it may have made sense to include the "rebuild all ports. Here's a= n >> example of how" initially, including three versions of the rebuilding >> commands is a tad too much, and so replacing the wordiness with a simple >> "ACTIONS:" tag kind of thing would make the message much more concise. >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:49 PM, =EB=D5=CC=C5=DB=CF=D7 =E1=CC=C5=CB=D3= =C5=CA<rndfax@yandex.ru> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Good morning, everyone! >>> >>> Instead of thousand words like these: >>> >>> 20121211: >>> AFFECTS: users of graphics/ImageMagick >>> AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org >>> >>> The ImageMagick library has been updated to version 6.8.0-7. Please >>> rebuild all ports that depend on it. >>> >>> If you use portmaster: >>> portmaster -w -r ImageMagick >>> If you use portupgrade: >>> portupgrade -fr graphics/ImageMagick >>> If you use pkgng with binary packages: >>> pkg install -fR graphics/ImageMagick >>> >>> >>> may be it would be useful for port upgrade programs to see information >>> like this: >>> >>> 20121211: >>> AFFECTS: users of graphics/ImageMagick >>> AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org >>> ACTION: REBUILD_DEPS >>> >>> ... some words for interested one ... > > > Could I put in a request as a lowly user to keep the wording? For various > reasons I haven't used any of the above commands (still on 9.0R with defa= ult > packages and tinderbox before that) and there have been a lot changes > recently. Keeping the wording helps those of us who aren't yet up to spee= d > with the new systems. I think we need to keep in mind people for whom English is an additional language... parsing ACTION; REBUILD_DEPS is a lot easier for them than a few paragraphs. However, in this case I don't see how the wording could be simplified. Chris
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