Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:54:15 +0300 From: Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/crystal Makefile Message-ID: <20020328075415.GK814@cavia.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020326105716.GV6007@freebsdmall.com> References: <200203250233.g2P2XWP98950@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020325203233.GB1679@cavia.pp.ru> <20020325141835.B6453@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020325222353.GD1833@cavia.pp.ru> <20020325143601.A7011@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020326105716.GV6007@freebsdmall.com>
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:57:16AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > It's definitely beneficial to do this: I marked some of these ports > > BROKEN last night, and some of them are already fixed, after having > > been broken for a long time without anyone caring. > > It is also much easier to show off the benefits of the ports > collection to new users when the functionality behaves as advertised. > Having hundreds of broken ports in the tree does not instill much > confidence in users about the general usability of the ports > collection. This is excellent work, Kris. > > - Murray I just wanted to point that for this work to become excellent, somebody (Kris?) should go through ALL ports and mark them BROKEN when needed. Note, than some ports should be marked broken only for some OSVERSION (>=500000, etc). Otherwise this is almost useless. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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