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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:57:43 -0500
From:      Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, ports@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Something wrong with portlint?
Message-ID:  <43D694C7.308@vonostingroup.com>
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Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:47:40 -0800 Brooks Davis
> <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:38:56PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 15:24:43 -0500 Frank Laszlo
>>> <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Put a newline after the "commented" section on the top, all is fine.
>>> > Like so:
>>> >
>>> ># New ports collection makefile for:    barnyard
>>> ># Date created:                         1 Feb 2005
>>> ># Whom:                                 pauls
>>> >#
>>> ># $FreeBSD: ports/security/barnyard/Makefile,v 1.5 2005/11/15 06:50:54
>>> > ade Exp $
>>> >#
>>> > <newline here>
>>> > PORTNAME=       barnyard
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> >    Frank
>>>
>>> Sheesh.  Wouldn't it be nice if the Handbook actually stipulated that?
>>
>> Or better yet if the worthless comment section died except for the
>> $FreeBSD$ bit. :-P
>>
> But you'd still have the required newline between that and the text of
> the Makefile, right?
>
>
It shouldn't really be required, its mostly just cosmetic.

-Frank



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