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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:50:46 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emulators/linux_base-f10 = Fedora 8?
Message-ID:  <4A2590A6.2010109@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090602204638.GC4425@lonesome.com>
References:  <3B3FEBB417C04B77AED8998347C99585@multiplay.co.uk> <03083008@serv3.int.kfs.ru> <4A1D7320.2030000@FreeBSD.org> <20090527191746.GA8089@lonesome.com> <67308765@bb.ipt.ru> <20090602204638.GC4425@lonesome.com>

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Mark Linimon wrote:
>>>> Then mark the port BROKEN, or some such. User confusion is a bad thing. :)
>>> s/BROKEN/IGNORE/
>> Just wonder, can/should it be implemented automagically via
>> the repocopy script?
> 
> I have no opinion, but will note that as long as you don't connect
> the ports to the category Makefile, you don't need to worry about
> things like this :-)

The problem that I responded to was users who surf into those
directories that expect useful things to happen. That problem isn't
fixed by not hooking them up.

If it's easy to add this feature to the repocopy script then I would
suggest it be done.

Doug



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