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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:57:28 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ioquake3 support more platforms
Message-ID:  <20091218065728.GC29158@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B2A52DB.5020602@bsdforen.de>
References:  <4B2A52DB.5020602@bsdforen.de>

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:48:43PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> A committer explained to me that he doesn't want to deal with SVN
> snapshot based ports. Is that a common attitude and what should
> I do to remedy this?

Well, the problem is that we (FreeBSD) can't guarantee whether the
contents of a resulting package are secure or not, or really, what
the contents are at all.  I personally would only be comfortable with
a default setting of NO_PACKAGE in this case.  Individual users could
manually override it.

I don't know if there is a formal policy about such ports.  Probably,
there ought to be.

mcl



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