[30149] trunk/dports/gnome/gnome-doc-utils

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Oct 22 23:52:28 PDT 2007


On Oct 23, 2007, at 01:25, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Oct 22, 2007, at 02:12, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>>
>>> So lets make this format our "official advice", but I would  
>>> refrain from *demanding* it just yet.
>>
>> Sure, there are no demands, just recommendations. :) nox has  
>> already updated "port lint" to complain about portfiles that don't  
>> match the recommendation. So as people run "port lint" on their  
>> portfiles, hopefully they will be encouraged to fix the names of  
>> their patchfiles.
>
> I was just wondering why it should make so many existing ports  
> invalid,
> but as long as someone is up to renaming all the files and  
> Portfiles...

It doesn't make them invalid. They still work fine. "port lint"  
exists to tell you about things that are wrong with your portfiles  
(errors) and things which could be improved about your portfiles  
(warnings). The patchname check is a warning, not an error.




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