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Date:      Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:54:41 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        portmgr@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: patch to allow moved pkg comments
Message-ID:  <20020805235441.GX10699@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020805163407.A21728@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020805163407.A21728@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:34:07PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:
> I wrote a patch that allows pkg-comment to be omitted, and in that case the
> comment will be taken from the first line of pkg-descr. This change is
> simple, safe, entirely conditionalized on pkg-comment not existing, and can
> be entirely ignored if people don't like it. On the other hand, it allows a
> potentially huge number of inodes to be reclaimed.
> 
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eric/ports-comment.diff
> 
> Please let me know what you think. Thanks!

Sounds like a good idea.  Normally I'd say put it in the
Makefile, though I suppose it'd be just as easy to replace
${COMMENT} with `head -1 pkg-descr`.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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