Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:14:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>, <ports@FreeBSD.org>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject: Re: patch to have make clean not recurse in ${PORTSDIR}
Message-ID: <20020426200933.O18791-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020427090419.F56612@k7.mavetju.org>
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> The find /usr/ports -name Makefile is *not* a good solution, since
> the design of the ports-layout is to modular and hierarchical[sp].
> There even might be ports (I agree, there are none) which require
> a different behaviour on a "make clean" then a "rm -rf work".
That would conflict with the well-known design of the ports tree,
and is highly unlikely to ever happen. The fact remains that the proposed
change doesn't actually fix anything. It removes the ability to do one
thing, and provides no new functionality... just a change in default
behavior that isn't necessary, to make something "better" that users
shouldn't be doing in the first place.
I admire the determination shown by the proponents of this change,
however, I can't help thinking that you've already spent way more time
than it's worth. Your time would be better spent improving the existing
documentation on this issue.
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State of the Union, January 28, 2002
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