Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:50:11 -0400 From: "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com> 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 Message-ID: <b2203fed0606200850s11670f48r11d37a53d4026b4c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060620083151.GC9929@soaustin.net> References: <20060620083151.GC9929@soaustin.net>
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On 6/20/06, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> 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. no objections from me for bsd.gnome.mk or bsd.gstreamer.mk. Michael mcl >
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