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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:25:22 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: final call: VERSION variable
Message-ID:  <20000331002522.D7713@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000330213346.I14845@lovett.com>; from ade@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:33:46PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003292033520.32828-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <86aejgwf92.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <vqc4s9o3vhr.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000330192823.A7713@argon.blackdawn.com> <vqc8zz02btr.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000330213346.I14845@lovett.com>

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote:
> The PKGNAME->PORTNAME/VERSION is definitely a good idea, and I'll
> do whatever I can to help convert things over.

Agreed.

> My only question is whether we should take this opportunity
> (since we're going to be touching every single port Makefile)
> to do some other cruft cleanup...  like removing all of the
> comments at the top..  maybe that's too draconian, but I really
> don't see the point in having them there.. it's not like they're
> all over the rest of the tree.

How 'bout a.out support? We could rip that out too. :)

> Since this is a big change, I think it's worthy of an announcement
> saying that things may be a little on the unstable side in
> -ports land for a while -- it might help to cut down on the
> number of "Hey! You broke all my ports!" messages...

Yes. Satoshi should do an "announcement"-style message in case anyone
decided to ignore this thread. :-)

-- 
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