New pkg-message[.in] guideline idea

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:16:07 +0200
David DEMELIER <demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi freebsd-ports@,
> 
> I would like to propose you something that I would like to be done.
> It's a cosmetic, useless thing but I like when things are made
> homogeneously. That is the problem : as you can see, sometimes port
> tells a message to the user but some maintainers used delimiters to
> begin/end the message such as a lot of "***" or "===" or blank spaces.
> 
> If you already did use NetBSD pkgsrc, you can see that *every* MESSAGE
> is composed like this :
> 
> ===========================================================================
> $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1.1.1 2008/10/20 09:28:51 wiz Exp $
> 
> Note you need audio/audacious-plugins to actually play music.
> ===========================================================================
> 
> I would do something like this to the FreeBSD ports, if you agree with
> me I can check every messages and modify them. I can also put
> something in the FreeBSD porter's handbook to write a "pkg-message
> template"
> 
> I know that there is much more important work to do, that's why I can
> take all this work for myself.
> 
> Please report any feedback,
> With kind regards.

Go ahead please. You'll need to keep the patch in sync for some time,
so use CVS to make the patch. Ping me when you are ready.


Thanks, 


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