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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:45:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        axl@iafrica.com
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Contents of patchfiles
Message-ID:  <199809172345.QAA16114@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8090.906036015@axl.training.iafrica.com> (message from Sheldon Hearn on Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:40:15 %2B0200)

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 * I'd like to know how the PortsMeisters feel about my doing this for
 * ports submissions. The gain is that users and future tinkers alike will
 * be able to see, at a glance, what a patch is supposed to do. The loss is
 * in disk space.

The tradeoff is actually not in disk space (who cares about a few
dozen bytes? :) but in human labor in the future as whoever fixes the
port will have to hand-edit the patch to add it back.

That said, it's certainly fine for me.  (I edit patches all the time
anyway.)

Satoshi

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