From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 26 03:35:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA08641 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08634; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d96-072.orchard2.ucdavis.edu [169.237.96.72]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA11199; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:34:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id KAA29316; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:34:55 GMT Message-ID: <19980826033455.A28564@nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:34:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/afterstep/pkg PLIST (more bsd.port.mk mods) Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199808250146.SAA00195@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199808250146.SAA00195@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 06:46:15PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-19980804-SNAP Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 06:46:15PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * MLINKS= var.1 -> nvar.2 \ > * /var/qmail/man/man1/ds.1 -> sync.l \ > * qlink.conf.3qt -> qlink.234.l > > Do we really need the "->"? The ones in /usr/src don't have that and > will just link even-numbered entries to odd-numbered ones. (*) I have to agree with Satoshi on this one. Changing the syntax is very much a Bad Thing. *BSD programmers know how to read and write the current MLINKS lines. Now we are changing the rules. Even though you don't like the look of the ones used with bsd.man.mk, I think we really, really should stay with what is the expected use/behavior. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message