cvs commit: ports/multimedia/acidrip Makefile ports/math/algotutor Makefile ports/sysutils/apt Makefile ports/graphics/asciio Makefile ports/devel/autodia Makefile ports/www/awffull Makefile ports/devel/bazaar Makefile ports/www/bigbluebutton Mak

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:53:27PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 01/22/2012 08:00, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > The concern is that someone would add something extra to BUILD_DEPENDS
> > without thinking about it and thus add extra bogus RUN_DEPENDS.
> 
> That's just plain stupid. We don't remove useful tools because
> developers might make a mistake with them, especially one that's so
> incredibly unlikely to happen.

Big +1.  This is like admitting that we're too dumb to realize the difference
between assignment operators and therefore we disband its usage.  I would say
instead, learn your tools and stop considering everyone stupid.

> > I'm uncertain if there other additional reasons that portmgr dislikes :=
> 
> Hopefully before any more changes are made there will be public
> discussion about it.

I also believe this goes a bit beyond portmgr@ competence as it has nothing
to do with building packages.  portmgr@ is not entitled to make this kind of
technical changes, and never was.

./danfe