Portupgrade confused about editors/emacs

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:34:47AM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> >Mike Jakubik wrote:
> >>If you are using portupgrade-2.0.1 then know that its broken, and 
> >>cant deal with moved ports well. The issue has been brought up many 
> >>times, but it doesn't seem like anything is being done about it. A 
> >>continuing trend for freebsd it seems.
> >
> >I think that's a little harsh for a port that has been updated three 
> >times this week. Indeed, the last commit message shows that the 
> >maintainer (CC'ed) was trying to fix the emacs ordering issue. Perhaps 
> >he missed something.
> >
> 
> Its not harsh, its reality. If you are going to contribute, don't 
> contribute broken code. If its broken, fix it. If you cant fix it, back 
> it out until its ready. I have been using freebsd since 2.x and i can 
> tell you that the quality of freebsd is slowly declining, more and more 
> broken code is being committed, and its not being address properly. A 
> perfect example of this is the recent RCng commits to 6-STABLE. The 
> ports are clearly not ready for this, yet its been committed and left. 
> Now many ports refuse to work. This clearly breaks POLA.

While this may be true, it doesn't preclude the fact that you're acting
like a spoilt brat on this list over the last few days at least.  You
might wish to consider being more polite.

Ceri
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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