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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:56:46 +0100
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/9e distinfo ports/archivers/bzip distinfo ports/archivers/cabextract distinfo ports/archivers/dact distinfo ports/archivers/fastjar distinfo ports/archivers/gshar+gunsh
Message-ID:  <20040128125646.GB20343@voodoo.oberon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040128061406.B62139@blues.jpj.net>
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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:16:06AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> > > Hum, that I read, but it only talked of a new feature that we could u=
se if
> > > we wanted. The question is still there, should we (port committers) u=
se it
> > > in our make.conf and have the SIZE field present event if USE_SIZE is=
 not
> > > defined in the Makefile ?
>=20
> Unless I misunderstood, its purpose for now is just to let a user know how
> big the distfiles for a port are, before the user starts to download them.
> It's optional.
>=20
> > I don't think it should be policy, but having 50/50 ports with
> > SIZE field will also confuse people.
>=20
> I think it would only cause minor confusion.  Users can just be told that
> the feature hasn't been deployed in all ports.
>=20
> So far I've added SIZE lines to 3% of all ports.  What do you propose?
> Do you want me to back out my commits?  Do you want the USE_SIZE stuff
> taken out of bsd.port.mk?  Do you want all ports to be changed
> simultaneously so they list sizes?  What I am intending to do is to
> gradually--a few categories at a time--add size lines to the ports
> maintained by me and those in the care of ports@, altogether 30% of the
> collection.  If only a handful of ports have the information, I doubt
> users will bother to look for it.

I don't think you should back it out, I agree it's useful
option for users with low bandwidth and maintainers should
decide whether to use it or do not.=20

*sigh* I'm thinking as before about /usr/ports/CHANGES...

-Kirill

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