From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 19 10:16:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AD037B401; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 49EE69B08; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:15:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:15:55 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, kde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011019121555.V25747@squall.waterspout.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: scanner@jurai.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, kde@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011019120706.T25747@squall.waterspout.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:15:31PM -0400, scanner@jurai.net wrote: > I think the actual problem isn't so much the message per se, its the fact > its placed in the wrong place. It should be shown at the *end* of the > build instead of during the building of kdebase. When you go to build the > metaport of KDE2 no one wants to sit there watching the output for 12 > hours while it builds. They want to come back and see the familiar > "everything built ok" and then install it. If you place it as the message > at the end of the build *alot* more people would see the > message. Otherwise no one is going to catch it. Just my $.02. Yeah, I'm aware of that. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about that, because people might be invoking the kdebase port from anywhere. So it's a general ports problem. :\ -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message