From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 15 9:45: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id 7520E37B400; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:45:03 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: Max Khon Cc: David O'Brien , Samuel Tardieu , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-comment Message-ID: <20020815094503.A40365@FreeBSD.org> References: <2002-08-11-20-49-28+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> <20020811122319.A11471@FreeBSD.org> <20020812193651.GC4787@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020813032034.A67671@iclub.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020813032034.A67671@iclub.nsu.ru>; from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru on Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:20:34AM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > That will certainly be a big help. When we got rid of the pkg/ and > > patches/ directories I begged Satoshi to go farther and put patches in > > main port directory and get rid of pkg/COMMENT. That was back when we > > hit 3000 ports -- I guess people didn't want to accept we would hit 8000 > > in only a few years. > > > > Of course why we don't just put "COMMENT=blah" in the ports's Makefile > > Posted patch uses `head -1 ${DESCR}` however. > I'd prefer to go NetBSD way and use COMMENT=blah for ports comments This patch is small and simple and allows us to reclaim a huge number of inodes. It also allows for an easy transition. I think the information in the comment probably belongs at the top of the description as well, but either way is fine as soon as I see a patch for other proposed placement. I just want my inodes back, sooner rather than later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message