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Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages



On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I'd be happy with just deciding that MESSAGE (now) is something thath
> should not exist, and then entirely removing support for it, and
> bulk-rming all MESSAGE files, after giving people who think they might
> have README.pkgsrc content a chance to move to that.

I can get behind that, but for me the first step would be to make
pkglint print an error about them - right now it's not even a warning
when a package has a MESSAGE.* file.

rillig@, can you please add that when you have time?

Thanks,
 Thomas


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