On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, David DEMELIER wrote:
I would do something like this to the FreeBSD ports, if you agree with me I can check every messages and modify them. I can also put something in the FreeBSD porter's handbook to write a "pkg-message template"
I find it completely useless and plainly stupid to edit the pkg-messages of all ports to include lots of equal signs for tty-based formatting purposes. In my opinion the messages in the ports tree should contain (English language, word based) messages, and if some visual formatting is desired, it should be done by the upper layer which displays the message (such as the ports framework, a web site which displays information about various ports, or whatever). The more clueful web monkeys have known to separate content from visual formatting for several years, why should FreeBSD make the same mistake the web monkeys did when www first became popular? However I fully support the idea that all the relevant messages should be displayed at the end of a build/upgrade process whenever technically feasible (otherwise they will just fly past while I am having a lunch or whatever). If the boild/upgrade process fails in the middle, the messages of successful builds/upgrades should still be displayed, even though the end of the process has not been reached. -- Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications sn...@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/ _______________________________________________ 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"
