cvs commit: ports/archivers/9e distinfo ports/archivers/bzip distinfo ports/archivers/cabextract distinfo ports/archivers/dact distinfo ports/archivers/fastjar distinfo ports/archivers/gshar+gunsh

[Kirill Ponomarew]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:16:06AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> > > Hum, that I read, but it only talked of a new feature that we could use if
> > > we wanted. The question is still there, should we (port committers) use it
> > > in our make.conf and have the SIZE field present event if USE_SIZE is not
> > > defined in the Makefile ?
> 
> Unless I misunderstood, its purpose for now is just to let a user know how
> big the distfiles for a port are, before the user starts to download them.
> It's optional.
> 
> > I don't think it should be policy, but having 50/50 ports with
> > SIZE field will also confuse people.
> 
> I think it would only cause minor confusion.  Users can just be told that
> the feature hasn't been deployed in all ports.
> 
> So far I've added SIZE lines to 3% of all ports.  What do you propose?
> Do you want me to back out my commits?  Do you want the USE_SIZE stuff
> taken out of bsd.port.mk?  Do you want all ports to be changed
> simultaneously so they list sizes?  What I am intending to do is to
> gradually--a few categories at a time--add size lines to the ports
> maintained by me and those in the care of ports@, altogether 30% of the
> collection.  If only a handful of ports have the information, I doubt
> users will bother to look for it.

I don't think you should back it out, I agree it's useful
option for users with low bandwidth and maintainers should
decide whether to use it or do not. 

*sigh* I'm thinking as before about /usr/ports/CHANGES...

-Kirill
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