Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:01:33 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <ak@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r307837 - head/comms/morse Message-ID: <20121127160133.GC72381@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgnKvqbsxXJuA0T0bNkZ%2B7c083FWZk0tn=YmLjd6JKDVdA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201211271205.qARC54XQ060171@svn.freebsd.org> <20121127125610.GA59490@FreeBSD.org> <20121127133107.GA740@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20121127135846.GA63249@FreeBSD.org> <20121127151842.GA5768@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20121127155046.GA72381@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxgnKvqbsxXJuA0T0bNkZ%2B7c083FWZk0tn=YmLjd6JKDVdA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:54:00AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 27 November 2012 10:50, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > > It is not just a matter of aesthetics, it's reducing environment pollution > > with gratuitously different names of standard knobs. As for POLA, these > > days people are supposed to cache their OPTIONS selection in /var/db/ports > > instead of hardcoding them in /etc/make.conf. Upon upgrade, dialog will > > pop up again since OPTIONS had changed, nothing should go unnoticed here. > > Some people do not want to use the dialog(1) interface. Using > /etc/make.conf is expected and fully supported. We should not > gratuitously break option names. OK; however, in this case we're not gratuitously breaking it, we're changing bogus name to more explicit, standard, used in many other ports name. If someone feels badly about it, UPDATING note can be added, although IMHO in this case nothing really warrants it. It is not particularly popular port, and it's better to fix these issues early rather that later. Dixi, ./danfe
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