From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 1 15:32:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF5214DEF for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:32:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15493; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:32:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:32:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: ports/12463: Update: Fvwm2 to 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <19990701182508.A31961@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > don't believe that legislating the use of articles at the beginning of the > > sentence adds utility in comparison to the pita factor of trying to > > enforce it. > > The PITA factor of enforcing the lack thereof is pretty low. :) Well there is already one port author who got pretty thoroughly disgusted over the nit-picking about his COMMENTS file, so actually I wasn't really referring to your pain here. What it boils down to is that your idea of readability is very different from mine. I would make the argument that my perspective is more that of a casual user, and therefore it is more desirable to leave things as they are. Whether you hold that argument to be sufficient or not is entierly up to you. I think that rather than asking, "Why should this remain as it is?" the better question is, "What will be gained by changing it?" I have yet to see an argument to that point other than, "It would look better if they are all the same," which I disagree with (in this instance) purely on spec. If I have missed some other part of your argument, my apologies. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message