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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:39:33 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: Overly restrictive checks in the make process
Message-ID:  <20070721023933.GB24593@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070720160749.54fec301.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <20070720085855.99fb2109.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070720200003.GC8179@soaustin.net> <20070720160749.54fec301.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Even better would be for make to realize that it's only doing the
> fetching, and do it anyway.

That still doesn't help with the problem of a user who starts a 10MB
download that won't work on his architecture or OS release.  The code
is all the same.  This is the aggravation we are trying to prevent.

mcl


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