On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:59 PM, "b. f." <bf1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Look, I don't mean to sound overly-exercised about this particular > commit -- that's easy to do in email when there is a lack of other > verbal and non-verbal cues --- of course it doesn't _need_ to be > reverted, although it would be better if it were. Nor did I mean to > suggest that in this particular instance you were arguing for sweeping > changes. I was merely pointing out the flaws in the reasoning behind > the change, and the undesirability of making many such unnecessary ad > hoc changes of this kind over time. The real issue (since this > problem has come up in multiple PRs, and email and forum threads, I > don't enclose it in quotes) is that users (including committers -- the > person who filed the original PR behind this change is a src > committer, and others have made similar mistakes), are being misled by > examples in the base system sources into abuses of __MAKE_CONF, and > are breaking port builds. I have previously suggested adding comments > to /src/share/examples/etc/make.conf to point out this problem, but no > one took up my suggestion, and I can't do it myself because I don't > have a src commit bit. I guess that I'll have to try again. OK; wish you better luck this time, perhaps via someone who lurks in this thread and has the appropriate bits + shares your motivation._______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"