cvs commit: ports/shells/bash Makefile pkg-plist

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 30 09:02:12 PDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:18:49PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> Ew, I don't like that at all.  Why should I rebuild (say) bash just
> because someone fixes a typo in the description?  The port is already
> installed, and I have no intention of reading the description until
> *maybe* the next time the package really does change.

I agree for you, as an end user.  The thing is that both you and the
package cluster uses the same indicator to decide if you should rebuild
the package.  So I guess a maintainer could also say, "Hey I fixed that
typo, but why is every 'pkg_add -r' user still reporting it to me?".

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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