svn commit: r346114 - head/devel/p4.el

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Taking one amongst many, the current practice is to mute the MKDIR
> > and not mute commands that install files. Would you mind respecting
> > that in the future ?

+1. :)

> This is just a matter of opinion. I've always preferred to see what is
> being installed or what direcories are being created. Even the example
> in the PHB doesn't mute the mkdir. Unless this gets correcte in the PHB
> I won't change this.

To be fair to Emanuel: our Ports Collection has a long tradition of muting
mkdir's; I cannot give a definitive answer to why, but I guess it does not
add too much of debug info (as something almost always goes into that dir,
and install commands should be vocal of course) yet clutters logs a bit at
the same time.

That said, I believe that better words to describe the best practice would
be "do not mute installation commands (inc. cp/cpio-based); mkdir's can be
muted unless you prefer them being vocal as well".

./danfe