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

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 2014-Mar-10, 15:26, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--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...

A moderate, low-volume ML, as freebsd-announce is, should be fine
indeed.

> 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.

Thanks for the info!

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Pietro Cerutti
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