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Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:52:03 -0500
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/dns/powerdns Makefile
Message-ID:  <41FF5143.23348.4B21BB15@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.61.0502011543040.12200@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <20050201111901.GM93795@voodoo.oberon.net>

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On 1 Feb 2005 at 15:43, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > I would just write that BROKEN strings should be always quoted and
> > IGNORE strings should not.  Writing about special characters can
> > confuse people, since not everyone knows what they are :)
> > 
> > Could you add it to porters handbook ?
> 
> Couldn't we just make BROKEN and IGNORE more consistent?

You're not alone. 

Why not treat BROKEN, IGNORE, FORBIDDEN, DEPRECATED all the same? Is 
there any reason they need to be different?
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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