From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 21:02:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B561106566B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from opti.dougb.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CC914D839 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:02:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120728 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:02:48 -0000 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)