cvs commit: ports/java/eclipseme Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:24:40 +0100
Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:

> Alexey Dokuchaev píše v st 19. 03. 2008 v 11:23 +0000:
> 
> > I wonder what's wrong with coherent and sane policies?  I don't expect
> > it would be hard to come to agreement about muting/not muting
> > mkdir's/installation statements.  These things are not of the type people
> > usually feel strongly about.
> 
> I like the high level of creative freedom the maintainer is entitled to.
> Rigid policies on unimportant details of style will kill the fun.
> 

This freedom usually leads to insecure or simply broken-by-design ports in tree.
For an extreme case take a look at gentoo foundation. I don't want to end up
like them.

Policies should always present, but had to be designed to not limit creativity,
while enforcing rules. That's what you and the entire portmgr team exists for.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE