Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:43:39 +0200 From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New pkg-message[.in] guideline idea Message-ID: <AANLkTinIibFjwufo0OcW5VsaXQ1qmUUca6u0-E6rg6Y2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikmI5oiE_NJ78uEAfHye9xfAbalzDOK7HCj451O@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimAhMpVuTIj10XKW65Wl2c6zplyyjD83OO1Y-1I@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1006231636010.22303@tiktik.epipe.com> <AANLkTikl45HPa0qPn99ywCX_TI5Y3k2xcysQc8PLW6AO@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1006240204290.22303@tiktik.epipe.com> <AANLkTinpbHAJB1XpvOiMO5uBCvTOuLNWjEGvjiHJ8dHt@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikmI5oiE_NJ78uEAfHye9xfAbalzDOK7HCj451O@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/6/24 Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:04 AM, David DEMELIER > <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/6/24 Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>: >>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, David DEMELIER wrote: >>> >>>> 2010/6/23 Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>: >>>>> >>>>> I find it completely useless and plainly stupid to edit the >>>>> pkg-messages of all ports to include lots of equal signs for tty-base= d >>>>> formatting purposes. >>>> >>>> We can take a long time to do that (we don't have to do it quickly), >>>> but it could be useful to standardize it for one reason : >>>> You will see that it's a message from the port maintainer/submitter >>>> and not from the program itself! Sometimes configure scripts stage say >>>> some useless things to the user. >>> >>> You obviously did not get my point. >>> >>> I fully agree with you that displaying a line of equals signs on >>> tty based interfaces to make the messages stand out from other crap >>> when installing ports makes sense, but I STRONGLY oppose to the >>> idea of putting this visual formatting in the actual message files. >>> It is just not the right place to put it in. >>> >> I see, so maybe in the future you would like some tools that can print >> the message, like a GTK+ dialog, QT dialog, or an other tool, if it's >> your point I agree. I don't specially want a equal "=3D=3D" line, I woul= d >> just something consistent, why not : nothing ? Yes we can just print >> the text without any visual characters, and the [future] tool will >> print the message as it want. > > No, what he's saying is: > =C2=A0- put the logic to print the separators into the appropriate bsd.*.= mk file > =C2=A0- remove all separators from all pkg-message* files > > That way, you can update the separators at any time by editing a > single file, instead of editing 20,000+ pkg-message files. =C2=A0And, tha= t > way, future tools can override the separator set in the mk file. > > Leave the pkg-message files as unformatted text. =C2=A0Put the formatting > into the mk file. > > Separate content from style. > Yes, that was I said, sorry if you did not understand well :-) --=20 Demelier David
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