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

[Adam Weinberger]

On March 10, 2014 10:16:59 AM EDT, 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.

That was sortof the idea behind ports-announce... A place to be notified when there are changes that people need to know about, without all the noise of the unwashed masses asking for help. 

It'd be nice to see it used like this more. 

# Adam

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