On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 02:30:06PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: > > I've always wondered why we have that in the defaults, perhaps > someone who knows can answer? If it served a valid purpose in the > past, but does not any longer, perhaps it's time to remove it?
My offhand guess (alternately, my hazy recollection from $YEARS ago; pick whichever is more flattering ;) is that one reason has to do with "brilliant" servers that redirect to an error page instead of giving a 404, and the user confusion that yields (when you get a downloaded "distfile" that fails the checksum due to being a few kB of HTML instead of a tarball). Of course, that still doesn't help the case that the "error page" is a 200 OK and then HTML... That said, I'm in favor of reconsidering it. I'm manually resolving redirects in the devel/bazaar-ng/ port on updates because of it, which is vaguely annoying. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ 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"
