From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 12 03:53:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA14107 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 03:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA14079; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 03:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA15776; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:53:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA26463; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:54:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:54:12 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: "David E. O'Brien" cc: John-Mark Gurney , "Justin M. Seger" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/minicom Makefile In-Reply-To: <19971212025935.04180@relay.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Cc: changed to -ports] On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, David E. O'Brien wrote: > And just below that: > > "This header should not be changed when upgrading the port later". > > But, then I've *always* found that "Version required" line totally > stupid -- it has never added anything for me. It might have some use if it were used to suggest (ie. no guarantees, 100% untested) which version of the distfile is required as a minimum for the patches to work. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk