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To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Contents of patchfiles
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 17 Sep 1998 15:07:19 +0200
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Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> writes:

> I'd like to know how the PortsMeisters feel about my doing this for
> ports submissions. The gain is that users and future tinkers alike will
> be able to see, at a glance, what a patch is supposed to do. The loss is
> in disk space.

No problem. Some patches in the ports tree do already have
introductory statements (see
/usr/ports/print/transfig/patches/patch-ae for an example).

tg

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