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. :) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
