Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:16:06 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/9e distinfo ports/archivers/bzip distinfo ports/archivers/cabextract distinfo ports/archivers/dact distinfo ports/archivers/fastjar distinfo ports/archivers/gshar+gunsh Message-ID: <20040128061406.B62139@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20040128085404.GE9290@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <200401272051.i0RKp7J6006306@repoman.freebsd.org> <53963718.1075241820@pouet.in.mat.cc> <1075238894.733.10.camel@gyros> <20040128085404.GE9290@voodoo.oberon.net>
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> > Hum, that I read, but it only talked of a new feature that we could use if > > we wanted. The question is still there, should we (port committers) use it > > in our make.conf and have the SIZE field present event if USE_SIZE is not > > defined in the Makefile ? Unless I misunderstood, its purpose for now is just to let a user know how big the distfiles for a port are, before the user starts to download them. It's optional. > I don't think it should be policy, but having 50/50 ports with > SIZE field will also confuse people. I think it would only cause minor confusion. Users can just be told that the feature hasn't been deployed in all ports. So far I've added SIZE lines to 3% of all ports. What do you propose? Do you want me to back out my commits? Do you want the USE_SIZE stuff taken out of bsd.port.mk? Do you want all ports to be changed simultaneously so they list sizes? What I am intending to do is to gradually--a few categories at a time--add size lines to the ports maintained by me and those in the care of ports@, altogether 30% of the collection. If only a handful of ports have the information, I doubt users will bother to look for it. I'll hold off awhile on continuing this work--please get back to me if you still have objections. -- Trevor Johnson
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