From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 15:32:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E02B16A47B; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:32:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4618743D45; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:32:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k5KFPac24918; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:25:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.1.1.160] (jclarke-vpn.cisco.com [172.18.173.17]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k5KFPWB24785; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:25:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4498136B.8000005@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:25:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: <20060620083151.GC9929@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20060620083151.GC9929@soaustin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kde@freebsd.org, ade@freebsd.org, linimon@freebsd.org, knu@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, ale@freebsd.org, edwin@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/92445: [patch] change all bogus uses of BROKEN to IGNORE X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:32:08 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > I am including each of you because you are the maintainer of a part of > bsd.*.mk that will be touched by this patch. > > This patch will once and for all get rid of the misnomer BROKEN in cases > where IGNORE is truly called for; that is, ports that cannot be installed > due to incompatabilities. Finally, BROKEN will be reserved for ports that > _should_ install correctly but are suspected not to at the present time. > > In practice, several of the BROKEN_WITH already set IGNORE internally, > so their names are no longer correct in any case. > > BROKEN_WITH will remain, for now, an alias for IGNORE_WITH, for backwards > compatibility, but its use will be deprecated. > > Please let me know of any feedback you have. I am intending to try this > one in the next -exp run. I have no objections to this. The reason we went with BROKEN in the first place is that most of these errors are temporary in the sense that the porter most likely messed up (i.e. the "unknown component" or "cannot use ltverhack"). The GNOME Desktop version conflict should truly be an IGNORE. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome