Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:09:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pre-everything targets Message-ID: <3D2BEBBF.5B740811@FreeBSD.org> References: <1026198612.1688.5.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>
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Paul Richards wrote: > > Can we change the policy on using the pre-everything target so that it > doesn't do anything pre-fetch unless it really does affect whether the > fetch takes place? > > There are quite a lot of ports that print out informational messages > that are related to build options that have no relevance to fetching the > distfiles and I'd prefer if they weren't output at that point to make it > easier to parse the output of running fetch across the whole of the > ports tree. I would think it would be more useful to teach ports maintainers to use proper targets, rather than define the fairly clearly worded "pre-everything" target to mean something else. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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