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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:29:42 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@FreeBSD.org>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES
Message-ID:  <4E1D1F36.5030604@missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4E1D1C70.4050505@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201107121826.00020.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4E1D1A21.601@missouri.edu> <4E1D1C70.4050505@FreeBSD.org>

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On 07/12/2011 11:17 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 21:08, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> Thinking more about it, it seems to me that instead of silently deleting
>> the disallowed characters in the filename, that the port should declare
>> itself broken if there are disallowed characters.  That way, this
>> particular error would have been caught far more easily.
>
> I was thinking along similar lines. My concern would be that if the
> change to allow - and _ is done silently that it will break plists.
>
>

I don't see how it can break plists - a few lines later (around line 
6440), bsd.port.mk dynamically generates the entries for plist from 
$filename.



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