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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:14:50 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Glenn Sieb <ges+lists@wingfoot.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: portsdb -Uu error
Message-ID:  <20050911021450.GA22722@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050911014113.GA68918@redundancy.redundancy.org>
References:  <4323338D.4080004@wingfoot.org> <20050910202624.GB1858@soaustin.net> <20050911014113.GA68918@redundancy.redundancy.org>

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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 06:41:13PM -0700, David Thiel wrote:
> Insists loudly to whom? I wasn't happy with the behavior myself, but
> when I solicited input first on the subject, I was told to use .error

Please let me know who told you that.  (Sorry if it sounds like I am
irritated at you -- I'm not -- this is just one of my pet peeves.)

> If this is something that is indeed insisted loudly, it should probably
> be documented in the porter's handbook, since it certainly wasn't loud
> enough for me to hear it.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/testing.html#MAKE-DESCRIBE

I will make a note to myself to repeat this in the dos-and-donts.

mcl



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