From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 12 19:40:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A4941A0; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA97323; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:40:49 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Bill Fumerola Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "# Version required:" In-Reply-To: <20000212220636.R92177@jade.chc-chimes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > My concern is that if we remove the information now it will be harder to > > put it back later, even though a lot of ports haven't kept the version > > required field up-to-date. > > Look 4 lines down at DISTNAME or PKGNAME. I don't see how we're "losing" > information. I suppose it would be no harder to extract the version number from here than from the header..yeah, that sounds okay to me then. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message