Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:56:13 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@wubethiopia.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>, src-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r179669 - head/sbin/rcorder Message-ID: <48562AAD.90900@wubethiopia.com> In-Reply-To: <485179C8.9090802@FreeBSD.org> References: <200806090907.m5997wwM043284@svn.freebsd.org> <86hcc2vjnv.fsf@ds4.des.no> <484E2E05.5080804@wubethiopia.com> <485179C8.9090802@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Mike Makonnen wrote: >> [ cc'ing -rc ] >> >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>> Mike Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>>> Document the misleading nature of the REQUIRE line. The patch in >>>> the PR has been heavily edited for style(9) and clarity. Mistakes >>>> are >>>> mine. >>> >>> How about s/REQUIRE/AFTER/, to mirror BEFORE? >> >> I would be in favor of that. Any objections? > > In some ways I think this would be a good change, although I confess I > have a yellow warning light in the "possibly gratuitous change" > column. My preference would be that we ask the netbsd guys about this > before we do it, either so that they can consider doing it also, or to > warn us about why it would be a bad idea. It may seem gratuitous, but on the other hand if it prevents misunderstandings of the kind that spawned this thread in the first place, then I think it's worth doing. As far as NetBSD is concerned we can have compatibility by simply *not* removing support for "REQUIRED". We can simply list it as supported but deprecated in the documentation. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://people.freebsd.org/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm @ FreeBSD.Org | AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 FreeBSD | http://www.freebsd.org
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