Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:04:23 -0400 From: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? Message-ID: <503C1917.2040405@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org> References: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org>
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On 08/26/12 17:02, Doug Barton wrote: > The old Makefile headers, ala: > > # New ports collection makefile for: BIND 9.9.x > # Date created: 27 January 2012 > # Whom: dougb > # > # $FreeBSD: head/dns/bind99/Makefile 301487 2012-07-24 19:23:23Z dougb $ > > have not served a purpose for longer than almost anyone who has a ports > commit bit has been around. My proposal is simple, let's remove > everything before the # $FreeBSD$. > > In the past when this has been proposed the objection was that it would > cause too much churn. If we had done this back when we had 5,000 ports > then we would have solved the problem with less churn, and no drama for > the 15,000 ports that followed. Every day we don't do this we make the > "churn" problem worse, and deepen the roots of something that has no > relevance. > > Can we please just deal with this now and be done with it? ... and yes, > I am volunteering to help with and/or do the work myself. > > Doug > +1
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