hi, there! On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:36:51PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Since pkg-comment contains only a single line, wouldn't it be more subtile > > > to put it in a COMMENT field as does NetBSD, instead of using a file? I think > > > it would speed up updates. > > > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eric/ports-comment.diff > > > > Will Andrews said that portmgr would be going over this sometime soon, > > hopefully they will commit it. > > That will certainly be a big help. When we got rid of the pkg/ and > patches/ directories I begged Satoshi to go farther and put patches in > main port directory and get rid of pkg/COMMENT. That was back when we > hit 3000 ports -- I guess people didn't want to accept we would hit 8000 > in only a few years. > > Of course why we don't just put "COMMENT=blah" in the ports's Makefile Posted patch uses `head -1 ${DESCR}` however. I'd prefer to go NetBSD way and use COMMENT=blah for ports comments /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
