Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:22:23 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Policy problem (was: ports/19270: Ports build mechanism doesn't check whether /usr/ports/distfiles is writeable) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101261819500.4474-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20010105201319.F682@argon.firepipe.net>
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:28:28AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >> What about this PR? It's more than half a year old, and I even included >> a patch suggestion: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19270> >> >> That shouldn't take more than five minutes for someone familiar with the >> port structure... > I would have fixed this (and others as well) a long time ago, but only > Satoshi can touch bsd.*.mk. That's current policy. This means that current policy is broken and should be fixed. Micromanagement hardly ever is a good idea, let alone in an open source project. And having only one volunteer exclusively responsible for some piece of code is A Bad Thing[tm]. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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