Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:59:55 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch>, wenheping <wenheping2000@hotmail.com>, 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: <20160308165955.GB50159@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <731F52BF0474DA3AD0CC4A5E@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <BLU168-W101BAF80F561B4B29A45AAAACB20@phx.gbl> <E5010340890C09BE8EF68750@ogg.in.absolight.net> <d90fdb7ea886d2ff2da13739a913a2b1@gahr.ch> <731F52BF0474DA3AD0CC4A5E@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:25:30PM +0100, 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. Not in the post-staging era, where *install* phase modifies bits under the $stagedir. For package users it's even less important for obvious reasons. Basically, making those commands vocal is beneficial for us porters and maintainers, not for the "end-users". > 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. As they say, we agree to 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. Sorry, but that hardly backs up that what you "kinda disagree" about should make its way into official documentation so easily. ./danfe
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