Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:03:51 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/xemacs21 Makefile ports/editors/xemacs21/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <13027.942908631@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:17:28 %2B0100." <199911172117.WAA22059@peedub.muc.de>
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There's lots of quoting in here, because this thread did not originate in the freebsd-ports mailing list. Gary Jennejohn made these comments in a commit on editors/xemacs21: > > - fixed the plist so that you don't get an error message when > using pkg_delete I raised the following concern: >Error message? Isn't it a warning? I like warnings because I can use >them. Your change suppresses a warning, essentially throwing >information away which I may have used. > >In particular, I may want to go and look at the directory that couldn't >be deleted and see _why_. :-) > >Please revert this part of your change: > >-@dirrm lib/xemacs >+@unexec rmdir %D/lib/xemacs 2>/dev/null || true Gary replied as follows: > My original thinking was the same as yours and intended to _not_ include > this change, but then I noticed that other committers were doing similar > commits, so I stuck it in. And the maintainer agreed to it. Talk to him :) I'm raising this here because I'd like to know whether this sort of thing (silencing package-related warnings for the sake of aesthetics) has become standard practice, or whether it's a habit a few people have gotten into that should be broken. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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