vim ports broken.

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Frank J. Laszlo<laszlof at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
[...]
>> Opps, now I got it: the official 7.2.041 patch can not be applied
>> cleanly so David provided a custom one. Choosing "%" to differentiate
>> it, however, was a bad idea. It would be better to use a simple
>> underscore.
>>
>>
>
> Why is % any worse than an underscore? As I explained earlier, fetch has no
> problem dealing with it. The errors people were posting are server-side,
> ftp.freebsd.org has no problems handling it.

POLA: users get surprised by the "Bad Request" answer and think that
the package is broken. So they complain at -ports, generating lengthy
email threads.

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