cvs commit: ports/java/eclipseme Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[Pav Lucistnik]

Alexey Dokuchaev píše v st 19. 03. 2008 v 09:18 +0000:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:02:33AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Alexey Dokuchaev p??e v ?t 18. 03. 2008 v 18:15 +0000:
> > 
> > > Not to mention that -R should've probably be used instead or -r, and we
> > > generally try not to mute installation of files/links (as opposed to
> > > dirs).
> > 
> > Since you mentioned it, I wonder, why you think it's useful to silence
> > the mkdir calls?
> 
> This question was raised before several times.  When I started working
> on ports back some n years, I noticed that lots of MKDIR's were muted,
> while INSTALL_FOO's were not.  I thought that this is probably for the
> same reason why we do not generate a commit message for directory
> creating in CVS, just for the files.  In other words, creating a
> directory normally followed by some file(s) being put in it, thus MKDIR
> itself carries less information and probably just making things overly
> noisy (yet verbose).

Still, the mkdir call may fall, and then the failure is less obvious to
the user/porter.

> To tell you the truth, I'm all hands for a policy here.  If we decide
> (like we had decided with patch files naming) upon certain convention,
> whatever it'll be, I will just follow that.  I'd love to see more
> consistency and order in our Ports Collection.

Oh no more policies, please!

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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