From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 10 15:54:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E8D37B424; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca5-129.ix.netcom.com [209.109.234.129]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12777; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8AMrSN23226; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal: PORTREVISION and PORTEPOCH References: From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 10 Sep 2000 15:52:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:08:04 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Forgot to reply to this one.... * From: Kris Kennaway * Hmm. Personally I would have thought ',' is a more dangerous character to * use than ':' since it's a very common list element separator. I don't know * how much it matters though. ':' is actually very bad because it will confuse make. (See the "make parallel" target in ports/Makefile -- it generates a Makefile used in the parallel package building system.) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message