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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:18:04 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/misc Makefile ports/misc/kde3-i18n-sr@Latn Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20040309221803.GA74729@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200403092305.47987.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:05:47PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 22:52, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > What is portsmon? FWIW, we build this port a few times with the
> > > kde-freebsd buildcluster (which is similar to bento) and had no probl=
ems
> > > with it.
> >
> > http://portsmon.firepipe.net, Mark's amazing port build
> > cross-reference and summary.
>=20
> Okay, but shouldn't portsmon rather be fixed then?

I don't think so...this isn't the attitude we should take when a
change has unintended consequences for third parties.

> I don't mean to be defiant=20
> or anything, but I really think this should be okay as far as any of the=
=20
> traditional ports-tools are concerned, since it passes the cluster logic.=
=20
> Should I still rename?

On general grounds I'd prefer to limit the non-alphanumeric characters
that appear in port metadata (particularly data that ends up in things
like INDEX) [1].  I'd still like you to rename it.

Thanks,
Kris

[1] For example, all hell will probably break loose if someone commits
a port with a space in the name :-)

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