cvs commit: ports/devel/asmutils Makefile distinfo pkg-descr

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:45:42PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:08:38PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > > What's so filthy about mkdirs? I personally enjoy seeing them in the
> > > > typescripts.
> > > 
> > > I agree there's a fair amount of controversy with muting mkdir's.  Back
> > > when I started porting things, I've observed that most ports actually
> > > muted those, so I followed that style.  Since there's no general rule
> > > right, I felt like keeping my ports consistent WRT this.  Again, I must
> > > say that I would be rather pleased if we'd finally come to an agreement,
> > > with appropriate sentence in Porter Handbook.
> > 
> > You wanna get an entry in PH whether to mute or not MKDIR's ?  It
> > just smells like another-useless-policy-request.  It's just a matter
> > of taste if you want to hide dirs creation or not.
> 
> Not a request, but rather suggestion or some soft guide-line, and not
> only about MKDIR, but also CHOWN/CHMOD and other "non-purely-install"
> things.  Since we're sweep thru patch: target silently, REINPLACE_CMD's
> should be muted as well (and in fact, that makes the trush right now).

The guideline is "be sensible".  Muting simple commands is fine,
muting complex commands is just a pain in the ass when they fail and
leave you with a silent error.

Kris
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