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Date:      Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:27:48 +0100
From:      Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Cc:        wenheping <wenheping2000@hotmail.com>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: svn commit: r410453 - in head/math/fityk: . files
Message-ID:  <7e7d04735f3c99081fd672ce35544382@gahr.ch>
In-Reply-To: <731F52BF0474DA3AD0CC4A5E@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On 2016-03-08 16:25, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 8 mars 2016 16:06:59 +0100 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> wrote:
> | So, danfe@, would you mind explaining to me on which basis muting 
> MKDIRs
> | is "at one's discretion" while muting INSTALLs is "actually wrong"?
> |
> | Given the evidence pointed at by mat@, either both muting MKDIR and
> | INSTALL commands is at one's discretion, or neither is.
> 
> Ok, the IMPORTANT bit here, is that the *install* phase is the most
> important one from the end-user point of view.
> 
> It's where things go live, and his system is modified.
> 
> So we want to show up things thare are modifying his system.  All of 
> them.
> 
> Some argue that mkdir are not that important and can be muted, I kinda
> disagree.
> 
> And as the doc is how portmgr thinks things should be (in that case, 
> it's
> been a couple of years where that means what *I* think), well, it's how 
> I
> documented it.

I completely agree with you.

-- 
Pietro Cerutti
gahr@gahr.ch

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