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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/



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