Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:21:22 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Dave Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for port maintainers Message-ID: <53443012.6070404@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <B37BAB10-E813-4C97-AC90-CAF32EC83164@tamu.edu> References: <B37BAB10-E813-4C97-AC90-CAF32EC83164@tamu.edu>
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On 4/8/2014 16:30, Dave Duchscher wrote: > Port Maintainers, > > Just a suggestion: If you are going to remove an option from your > port, it would be nice if you would make the port break when that > option is used. We build our own packages with custom options and > this little issue just caused some issues for us. We can’t watch > updates to every port we build and we just got bit by the option > APACHE being removed from lang/php5 port. However, it is totally within your control have a script monitor every port that you build for changes in options. You could even run it as a poudriere hook. There are hundreds of maintainers; you aren't going to reach all of them even if they all *all* agree with this suggestion. (I don't think I do. How long do I have to keep this non-option broken? 1 month? 1 year? forever? too much trouble.) John
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