Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:02:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? Message-ID: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org>
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The old Makefile headers, ala: # New ports collection makefile for: BIND 9.9.x # Date created: 27 January 2012 # Whom: dougb # # $FreeBSD: head/dns/bind99/Makefile 301487 2012-07-24 19:23:23Z dougb $ have not served a purpose for longer than almost anyone who has a ports commit bit has been around. My proposal is simple, let's remove everything before the # $FreeBSD$. In the past when this has been proposed the objection was that it would cause too much churn. If we had done this back when we had 5,000 ports then we would have solved the problem with less churn, and no drama for the 15,000 ports that followed. Every day we don't do this we make the "churn" problem worse, and deepen the roots of something that has no relevance. Can we please just deal with this now and be done with it? ... and yes, I am volunteering to help with and/or do the work myself. Doug -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)
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