Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:26:49 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw4PCqSBMYWRhbg==?= <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: removing old linux ports Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkn27mm8AgjBzJT7EBc51PgNKF7GjWn8Xf0aSw_CtBoxg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130305212735.0000038b@unknown> References: <51349535.5040800@freebsd.org> <5134AB8C.2050202@gmail.com> <20130304214254.00004f27@unknown> <CAF6rxgkC-85KpC5iZc462o8ZoOA0RsF0On=q8taBd9xSwoMPeg@mail.gmail.com> <20130305212735.0000038b@unknown>
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On 5 March 2013 15:27, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: > As soon as you remove compatibility shims (but the make syntax is > still compatible), you should make a test at the beginning of > bsd.port.mk which then tells the user that the ports collection doesn't > work on OSVERSION < xxx anymore. Just because we know that 7.x is EoL > doesn't mean that users know about it too, and a clear message is much > more helpful than an obscure error message or a silent failure > (e.g. installing linux ports which are not compatible). Understood. I would rather see this be a general error message than anything specific to the emulation@ ports. -- Eitan Adler
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