On 24 December 2012 11:31, Chris Whitehouse <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/12/2012 06:52, Anton Afanasyev wrote: >> >> I second this. >> While it may have made sense to include the "rebuild all ports. Here's an >> example of how" initially, including three versions of the rebuilding >> commands is a tad too much, and so replacing the wordiness with a simple >> "ACTIONS:" tag kind of thing would make the message much more concise. >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Кулешов Алексей<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Good morning, everyone! >>> >>> Instead of thousand words like these: >>> >>> 20121211: >>> AFFECTS: users of graphics/ImageMagick >>> AUTHOR: [email protected] >>> >>> The ImageMagick library has been updated to version 6.8.0-7. Please >>> rebuild all ports that depend on it. >>> >>> If you use portmaster: >>> portmaster -w -r ImageMagick >>> If you use portupgrade: >>> portupgrade -fr graphics/ImageMagick >>> If you use pkgng with binary packages: >>> pkg install -fR graphics/ImageMagick >>> >>> >>> may be it would be useful for port upgrade programs to see information >>> like this: >>> >>> 20121211: >>> AFFECTS: users of graphics/ImageMagick >>> AUTHOR: [email protected] >>> ACTION: REBUILD_DEPS >>> >>> ... some words for interested one ... > > > Could I put in a request as a lowly user to keep the wording? For various > reasons I haven't used any of the above commands (still on 9.0R with default > packages and tinderbox before that) and there have been a lot changes > recently. Keeping the wording helps those of us who aren't yet up to speed > with the new systems.
I think we need to keep in mind people for whom English is an additional language... parsing ACTION; REBUILD_DEPS is a lot easier for them than a few paragraphs. However, in this case I don't see how the wording could be simplified. Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
