Re: @dirrm behaviour change (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/files)

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:15:14PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:28:01AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > Whilst I welcome the functionality, I'd just like to ask that you keep
> > discussion like this open, please - that way, others can join in, and
> > the timing of this change would have been a bit better.
> 
> I don't see any problem with the timing.  Now we just have the
> functionality (and that's always a question, when does someone have
> time to implement it -- that's independent of any feature discussion,
> except it's usually afterwards :) ) and we can now decide when we want
> to use it.
> 
> I think it's a very nice feature and am looking forward to using it,
> but we can postpone it e.g. to after the next pkgsrc branch if we
> think it's better timingwise.

We'll have to disagree on the timing of the change, then, but I've
noticed that one side in this discussion has been skirting around the
other issue - please keep discussion about features like this in the
open, so that we can all participate.

Thanks,
Alistair