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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:38:20 +0000
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New version of the fakeroot patch
Message-ID:  <ed7b1c610912150838k33243059h6d58a5cdaaa084ca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912150852420.29906@wonkity.com>
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2009/12/15 Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>:
> A suggestion: USE_FAKE is not descriptive. =A0It doesn't tell what is fak=
e or
> what happens. =A0I'm not sure fake is the even the right word.
>
> USE_FAKEROOT is better, but still ambiguous: it's not really fake, and
> "root" can mean too many things.
>
> I guess what I'm trying to say is consider a name that describes what is
> accomplished, not how it works.
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
>

I note that, if someone has a better idea for the name.

Don't forget the goal of the mail is also to get the people opinion of
the usefullness or not of the kind of patch, and you would expect from
it, particulary portmgr@ :)

regards
Bapt



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