Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 08:20:19 +0800 From: Denny Lin <dennylin93@hs.ntnu.edu.tw> To: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> Cc: Kenta Suzumoto <kentas@hush.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <20130525002018.GB16987@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B7WWSdo4M28WgvUgKo4Y2vCz2U%2BZVUMih7%2BvMNYgbdenbj1Tw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> <CA%2B7WWSdo4M28WgvUgKo4Y2vCz2U%2BZVUMih7%2BvMNYgbdenbj1Tw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 01:29:09AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > As far as I know FreeBSD does not roll custom distfiles because of > very obvious issues with authenticity of the files. If you create a > custom distfile from let's say editors/vim as you suggest then who is > going to trust you to provide authentic sources of someone else's > work? Now when everything is separate and downloadable and verifiable > individually from the upstream vendor there's no problem with > authenticity. There are some exceptions. For instance, www/chromium has a custom distfile. I think it would be reasonable to create one for editors/vim as well. -- Denny Lin
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