On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 4, 2013, at 17:13, Sean Farley wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> For example, py-yaml or py-bottle both overwrite categories with 'python 
>>>> devel'.
>>> 
>>> Yes but that's not a problem. Since the python portgroup sets categories to 
>>> python, setting categories to python devel is exactly equivalent to 
>>> appending devel to the categories.
>> 
>> … then I'm confused as to the initial compliant given by Frank, "Why
>> did you change this? The python 1.0 portgroup sets the category as
>> python. The way it was is how we do it on all the other python ports."
> 
> The complaint was that although your change did not have any functional 
> effect on the port, you changed the port from using the recommended method 
> (appending to the values the portgroup sets for you) to the not-recommended 
> method (redundantly specifying / overwriting things the portgroup sets for 
> you).

Exactly. 

>> I guess it's because I didn't realize that python-1.0.tcl already sets
>> the python category … but then again, having 125 ports set a bad
>> example means there's a high probability that a new port author will
>> use them as a template.
> 
> That's true.

Amen. :)

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