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

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 10 mars 2014 15:16:59 +0100 Pietro Cerutti <gahr at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| On 2014-Mar-10, 14:38, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +--On 10 mars 2014 08:32:52 -0400 Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org>
|> wrote:
|> | On 2014/03/10 03:24, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
|> |> 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 ?
|> |> 
|> |>> 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.
|> | 
|> | Alexey -
|> | 
|> | You make this request every few days, it seems, and the response is
|> | always the same: it's not in the PHB.
|> | 
|> | You should put it there. It SHOULD be policy. We should strive for
|> | consistency across ports. The ports tree should present a unified
|> | experience for all ports, for all users.
|> 
|> Yes, sorry, it's not in the PHB yet, I'm at section 6.7 at the momment,
|> and I'm updating things as I go.
|> 
|> (And yes, if you're applying old policies from chapters 1 to 5, you
|> should go and have a look, things may have changed.)
| 
| ports-policy-change-announce@ comes to mind :) Has anybody else ever felt
| the desire to get notified whenever a policy is updated? Just to avoid
| having to skim through commit logs.

Well, ports-announce@ should exist, but it's a bit like ports-commiters@
people will always complain that they've never seen the email, and have not
been told in person...

The changes I did were just garbage collecting old things, getting bits
up-to-date with what the current policies have been for quite some time,
things like that.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold