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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:20:17 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
Subject:   Re: Question about portlint WARN/FATAL errors
Message-ID:  <200407101520.17278.linimon@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040710160201.77ab4eaa.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
References:  <20040710160201.77ab4eaa.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>

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On Saturday 10 July 2004 03:02 pm, Randy Pratt wrote:
> I ran portlint on quite a few existing ports and was quite surprised
> at the amount of WARN and FATAL errors that existed.

portlint is a heuristic tool.  It is quite possible for it to report false
positives.  Also, some ports do things in an "unapproved" way simply
to work around restrictions/bugs in bsd.*.mk.

Having said that, there are a large number of ports that just have bugs.
The problem comes in determining which are which :-)

mcl



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