cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:57:55PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> Have we become so process oriented that we've become paralyzed??

No. But due to the size of the framework, the (in)compatibility
issues between different make(1)s and the lack of knowledge of
Makefiles, the commiting of changes to bsd.port.mk has become more
structured.

This means that there will be sometimes a longer delay before changes
get commited, but it also means that unambigious failures get caught
before systems break.

I agree that lack of knowledge of Makefiles shouldn't be a reason
to delay things, but that's the current situation and that isn't
something which is resolved easily.

> Actually, yes we have.  It boggles my mind where being a Ports Committer
> in 1995 under Satoshi has turned into.  It boggles my mind that a comment
> fix to bsd.port.mk has to be run thru an experimental build.  Yet portmgr

Mine too. But with the current status, if they feel more comfortable
with it, then who am I to complain about it? (I will complain, but
I also won't hold it against them)

> can't address issues of port stealing?  No portmgr replied to the thread
> when elk hijacked the 'bash' port from me.

Two wrongs don't make it right.

Edwin

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