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Date:      Fri, 6 Oct 2000 03:41:12 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Ports layout reorganization (Re: ports tree idea: Combine DESCR and COMMENT)
Message-ID:  <20001006034111.A12656@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <vqcsnqjin86.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@freebsd.org on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:03:37AM -0700
References:  <39CD200B.A10214EA@glue.umd.edu> <20000923233215.A45139@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CD295E.453FF278@glue.umd.edu> <vqcsnqjin86.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:03:37AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> One reason why I'm not very thrilled about combining COMMENT and DESCR
> is that it will require a lot of manual work to merge them -- you
> can't just "cat COMMENT DESCR > DESCR2; mv DESCR2 DESCR; cvs remove -f
> COMMENT; cvs commit".  People actually need to read the DESCR files
> and merge the COMMENT lines in as appropriate.

I don't understand why "cat COMMENT DESCR > DESCR2; mv DESCR2 DESCR"
won't work.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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