math/lapack broken

[William Grzybowski]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Steve Kargl
<sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 12:49:03PM -0300, William Grzybowski wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Steve Kargl
>> <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:14:43PM -0300, William Grzybowski wrote:
>> >> I can't help but notice how unrespectful you have been.
>> >> Its not the first message ranting about something broken.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I can't help but notice how poorly some decisions are made
>> > within the ports community, and no, this isn't the nearly
>> > the first poor decision.
>> >
>> > If the port has an option to build the profiled libraries
>> > and that option is selected, then I expect the port to
>> > build the profiled library.
>>
>> You're welcome to help the ports committers to maintain over 20k ports
>> and raise the quality.
>> Are you looking for mentors for your ports@ commit bit?
>>
>
> Check your history.  I was a port maintainer many years
> ago.  Dropped maintainership of all my ports after several
> unreviewed changes by others to those ports were made.
> These unreviewed changes broke those ports and I was
> forced to clean up the mess.

So, you gave up?

> This of course has little to do with the issue that I have
> raised here.  A port, namely math/lapack, has an option to
> build profiled libraries and the port does not honor that
> option when selected.  It's simple Q&A.  Either remove the
> option or fix it.

Like I said, fill out a PR and mail the maintainer.
"Its broken, fix it." Doesn't work.


-- 
William Grzybowski / wg
FreeBSD Ports Committer