On 2011-07-02 05:16:27 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > There may be legitimate cases for overriding the default variant description, > to provide more info (like pari and perhaps glew). Not sure what we should > do. Either leave things the way they are (and let the port author get a lint > warning about it), remove the warning for overriding default variant > descriptions (and thereby remove the automated way by which the authors of > the above ports would become aware that they should not be writing those > descriptions themselves anymore, if they have nothing to add), or provide a > way in the portfile for the author to indicate that yes they really do mean > to override the default description (seems like overkill).
Or provide some sort of description-append (description-replace could be added too, to override the default description). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
