cvs commit: ports/misc Makefile ports/misc/kde3-i18n-sr@Latn Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:05:47PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 22:52, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > What is portsmon? FWIW, we build this port a few times with the
> > > kde-freebsd buildcluster (which is similar to bento) and had no problems
> > > with it.
> >
> > http://portsmon.firepipe.net, Mark's amazing port build
> > cross-reference and summary.
> 
> Okay, but shouldn't portsmon rather be fixed then?

I don't think so...this isn't the attitude we should take when a
change has unintended consequences for third parties.

> I don't mean to be defiant 
> or anything, but I really think this should be okay as far as any of the 
> traditional ports-tools are concerned, since it passes the cluster logic. 
> Should I still rename?

On general grounds I'd prefer to limit the non-alphanumeric characters
that appear in port metadata (particularly data that ends up in things
like INDEX) [1].  I'd still like you to rename it.

Thanks,
Kris

[1] For example, all hell will probably break loose if someone commits
a port with a space in the name :-)
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