On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:45:42PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:08:38PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > What's so filthy about mkdirs? I personally enjoy seeing them in the > > > > typescripts. > > > > > > I agree there's a fair amount of controversy with muting mkdir's. Back > > > when I started porting things, I've observed that most ports actually > > > muted those, so I followed that style. Since there's no general rule > > > right, I felt like keeping my ports consistent WRT this. Again, I must > > > say that I would be rather pleased if we'd finally come to an agreement, > > > with appropriate sentence in Porter Handbook. > > > > You wanna get an entry in PH whether to mute or not MKDIR's ? It > > just smells like another-useless-policy-request. It's just a matter > > of taste if you want to hide dirs creation or not. > > Not a request, but rather suggestion or some soft guide-line, and not > only about MKDIR, but also CHOWN/CHMOD and other "non-purely-install" > things. Since we're sweep thru patch: target silently, REINPLACE_CMD's > should be muted as well (and in fact, that makes the trush right now).
The guideline is "be sensible". Muting simple commands is fine, muting complex commands is just a pain in the ass when they fail and leave you with a silent error. Kris
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