I'm guessing by the few emails I've seen taking issue with the style emails that most people don't mind and that that the people that wrote the tool felt that style does matter.
I'm in that camp. I like seeing all the ports having the same style.
OK. If that's the prevailing opinion I'll just /dev/null the lint warnings, hopefully not miss anything truly important, and get on with work.
Is it? I don't like the 'port lint' stuff that complains about whitespace - its invisible to humans and to port (so far as I know), why do we bother people about it? I also don't like having patchfiles ending in '.diff', used to be they matched FreeBSD's style (IIRC, and that was a purposeful decision). If somebody has a hair about their editor "properly" displaying patches, why not teach the editor to match on 'patch-' for highlighting/<whatevering>?
The pedantery of port lint is particularly embarassing for occasional maintainers like me who don't have commit bit. The thing is I can't really ask the list to "please delete the space at the and of line 14", as lint suggests and expect that people still take me serious. Effectively, I can't really do anything about this stream of little nagging notes, and that's not good. Florian -- Florian Ebeling florian.ebeling@gmail.com