On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:53:27PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 01/22/2012 08:00, Eitan Adler wrote: > > The concern is that someone would add something extra to BUILD_DEPENDS > > without thinking about it and thus add extra bogus RUN_DEPENDS. > > That's just plain stupid. We don't remove useful tools because > developers might make a mistake with them, especially one that's so > incredibly unlikely to happen.
Big +1. This is like admitting that we're too dumb to realize the difference between assignment operators and therefore we disband its usage. I would say instead, learn your tools and stop considering everyone stupid. > > I'm uncertain if there other additional reasons that portmgr dislikes := > > Hopefully before any more changes are made there will be public > discussion about it. I also believe this goes a bit beyond portmgr@ competence as it has nothing to do with building packages. portmgr@ is not entitled to make this kind of technical changes, and never was. ./danfe _______________________________________________ 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"
