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Date:      Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:16:00 +0100
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/asmutils Makefile distinfo pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <20051130141600.GB79912@voodoo.bawue.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051130140838.GA49598@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200511301349.jAUDnfoO032739@repoman.freebsd.org> <1133358970.85111.16.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20051130140838.GA49598@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:08:38PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > What's so filthy about mkdirs? I personally enjoy seeing them in the
> > typescripts.
> 
> I agree there's a fair amount of controversy with muting mkdir's.  Back
> when I started porting things, I've observed that most ports actually
> muted those, so I followed that style.  Since there's no general rule
> right, I felt like keeping my ports consistent WRT this.  Again, I must
> say that I would be rather pleased if we'd finally come to an agreement,
> with appropriate sentence in Porter Handbook.

You wanna get an entry in PH whether to mute or not MKDIR's ?  It
just smells like another-useless-policy-request.  It's just a matter
of taste if you want to hide dirs creation or not.

-Kirill



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