From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 23:55:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBE316A4CE; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:55:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419B743D48; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:55:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([134.117.145.25]) by connectmail.carleton.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTPSA id <0IB700LLFH4QQQ@connectmail.carleton.ca>; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:55:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:58:23 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: <20050131143802.X1177@ync.qbhto.arg> To: Doug Barton Message-id: <41FEC61F.6000309@FreeBSD.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050105) References: <20050131143802.X1177@ync.qbhto.arg> cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed patch to inform users of fetchindex X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:55:39 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > I can't help but think that the majority of users try to build their own > index because they don't know that there is a better alternative. What > would y'all think of the following patch? I like the warning, but I don't think that making a new target is really a good thing. I think that printing the warning message at the beginning of a 'make index' is better than having 'make index' not result in any INDEX whatsoever. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx