Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/06/2019 19:29, Bob Eager wrote: > The committer folded the README file into pkg-message, and I disagree > with this: > 2) It meant that an end user (without access to the ports tree) didn't > have an immediate way to see the README contents. That's not actually correct. ``` % pkg info -D p

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Grzegorz Junka
On 08/06/2019 19:11, Adam Weinberger wrote: Hello everyone, I want to get some stakeholder input on our pkg-message files. I think we need to have a clear policy about what does and doesn't belong in them, and I'd like to get your input. pkg-message is shown to every user on every install. UP

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Grzegorz Junka wrote on 2019/06/09 16:12: On 08/06/2019 19:11, Adam Weinberger wrote: Hello everyone, I want to get some stakeholder input on our pkg-message files. I think we need to have a clear policy about what does and doesn't belong in them, and I'd like to get your input. pkg-message i

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Grzegorz Junka
On 09/06/2019 15:44, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Grzegorz Junka wrote on 2019/06/09 16:12: On 08/06/2019 19:11, Adam Weinberger wrote: Hello everyone, I want to get some stakeholder input on our pkg-message files. I think we need to have a clear policy about what does and doesn't belong in them,

Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-09 Thread Adam Weinberger
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 11:00 PM Mel Pilgrim wrote: > > On 2019-06-08 9:57, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > >> > >> In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237688 we had > >> a user report against lang/gcc* ports that could be traced

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Adam Weinberger
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:33 AM Grzegorz Junka wrote: > > > On 09/06/2019 15:44, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > Grzegorz Junka wrote on 2019/06/09 16:12: > >> > >> On 08/06/2019 19:11, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >>> Hello everyone, > >>> > >>> I want to get some stakeholder input on our pkg-message file

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Grzegorz Junka
On 09/06/2019 16:55, Adam Weinberger wrote: On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:33 AM Grzegorz Junka wrote: On 09/06/2019 15:44, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Grzegorz Junka wrote on 2019/06/09 16:12: On 08/06/2019 19:11, Adam Weinberger wrote: Hello everyone, I want to get some stakeholder input on our p

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread @lbutlr
On 9 Jun2019, at 09:33, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > Because pkg doesn't know if it's a first install or reinstall. This is a solvable issue, however. There are may things that could be checked to see if this is a new install or not, though some go them will require some additional tracking pf [por

Re: Cleaning up pkg-message

2019-06-09 Thread Bob Eager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 12:52:41 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 08/06/2019 19:29, Bob Eager wrote: > > The committer folded the README file into pkg-message, and I > > disagree with this: > > > 2) It meant that an end user (without access to the po