BROKEN tags (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/avr-libc Makefile)

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Instead of looking at this issue as "Committer X broke my port, so why
> should I have to put up with a BROKEN message in my port for something
> that wasn't my fault?" try to see it in terms of the end user -- you
> know, the guy out there for whom we're all supposed to be providing an
> OS.  He or she just wants to install the software and doesn't care
> which unknown person caused the problem, only that it exists and is a
> known bug that prevents the port from building, so they shouldn't
> waste their time trying.

The end user could always remove (or empty) /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk
himself, and get the port to compile.  With the BROKEN line, he still
wouldn't be able to compile an otherwise fully functional port.
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