Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 03:53:24 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: BROKEN tags (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/avr-libc Makefile) Message-ID: <20030519105324.GB4451@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519114341.B2937@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <200305190828.h4J8S8l0069634@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030519085637.GA71335@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030519111649.A2937@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030519093706.GA90624@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030519114341.B2937@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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--bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:43:41AM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > Instead of looking at this issue as "Committer X broke my port, so why > > should I have to put up with a BROKEN message in my port for something > > that wasn't my fault?" try to see it in terms of the end user -- you > > know, the guy out there for whom we're all supposed to be providing an > > OS. He or she just wants to install the software and doesn't care > > which unknown person caused the problem, only that it exists and is a > > known bug that prevents the port from building, so they shouldn't > > waste their time trying. >=20 > The end user could always remove (or empty) /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk > himself, and get the port to compile. With the BROKEN line, he still > wouldn't be able to compile an otherwise fully functional port. Don't be silly..if the user is willing to perform major surgery on a system makefile, then they can just as easily make the trivial change to comment out or remove the BROKEN tag from the port makefile. Kris --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+yLekWry0BWjoQKURAgyeAJ9G0uJYMZgH94AmmCaooZckLA9gLwCeNpFu +eqrNxQ4HQZi+08QaZm2CZ4= =mP4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE--
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