Peter Dennis wrote:

> Okay - and that was the answer I was looking for - essentially this means
> it is something that pkg(5) can handle (by setting a timestamp attribute
> in the manifest) but it is something that has not been implemented in the
> manifests - and so the question then translates should it be ?

In general, there are very few files that require a particular timestamp.
The primary use case is for .py files, because the corresponding .pyc files
have the .py file timestamps baked into them, and will be recompiled if the
timestamps don't match.  It's a bad scheme, IMHO, but it's what we have to
deal with right now.

Like johansen said, if there are other use-cases, then we can always put
the timestamp attribute on, but I'm not aware of any at the moment.

Danek
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