On 2 Sep 2011 20:53, "Mark Linimon" <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:39:14AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > My point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases > > In a perfect world: yes. > > > I certainly don't have any precise idea of the things which should be > > changed so that edge cases disappear > > Well, then, we're right back where we started. > > > only *very experienced* people having observed a lot of failure cases > > could give correct advices. > > And we haven't figured them out yet. > > As the tools get better (which they are), we can get more insight into > this. But, as you already understand, it's really hard. > > > Having a file which documents manual intervention is a perpetual > > tenptation to do the things the sloppy way > > I disagree with your logic. None of the FreeBSD committers _want_ this > to be difficult. >
+1. Most of us despise its very existence, but recognise that just sometimes, it saves some horribly fragile code from being written. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
