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

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 9:02 AM -0700 3/30/09, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 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?".

Yeah, I now have a better understanding of the reasons behind this.  I
can see the advantage of triggering a build on the package cluster.  On
my systems I compile all the ports I install, so I wasn't thinking about
the builds for packages.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu