Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers?

[Chris Rees]

On 26 August 2012 22:04, Bryan Drewery <bryan at shatow.net> wrote:
> On 8/26/2012 4:02 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> The old Makefile headers, ala:
>>
>> # New ports collection makefile for:    BIND 9.9.x
>> # Date created:                         27 January 2012
>> # Whom:                                 dougb
>> #
>> # $FreeBSD: head/dns/bind99/Makefile 301487 2012-07-24 19:23:23Z dougb $
>>
>> have not served a purpose for longer than almost anyone who has a ports
>> commit bit has been around. My proposal is simple, let's remove
>> everything before the # $FreeBSD$.
>>
>> In the past when this has been proposed the objection was that it would
>> cause too much churn. If we had done this back when we had 5,000 ports
>> then we would have solved the problem with less churn, and no drama for
>> the 15,000 ports that followed. Every day we don't do this we make the
>> "churn" problem worse, and deepen the roots of something that has no
>> relevance.
>>
>> Can we please just deal with this now and be done with it? ... and yes,
>> I am volunteering to help with and/or do the work myself.
>
>
> Yes please.
>
> If we can't agree to mass delete them with churn, let's at least agree
> to remove as we update ports, and in the template for new ports.
>

Now in the days of Subversion... we could do the entire tree in one
lovely atomic commit!

Chris