portlint's FATAL warnings

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Thu Jun 19 07:30:54 PDT 2003


Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd at it.ca> wrote:

> The port in question is security/proxycheck, which I submitted recently.
> The HTML file contains usage examples and hints that aren't included in
> the man page or elsewhere in the dist tarball (which is versioned).  I
> could just make a pkg-message that points people to it,

Better add the pointer to the man page.  Or even the actual content.
I detest this single-user mindset that assumes the sysadmin who
installs packages is also the (only) user to run them.

> or I could maintain my own (versioned) version at a URL independent
> of the original author's....

That's fine too, but more work for you.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de



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