From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 22 11:42:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA05646 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:42:35 -0800 Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA05630 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:42:25 -0800 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.1/8.7) with ESMTP id OAA22583; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:42:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.6.4) id OAA08561; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:42:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@espresso.eng.umd.edu To: Satoshi Asami cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal 5: utils -> misc In-Reply-To: <199511221330.FAA05009@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: > The category "utils" has never lived up to its expectation where > people put in all sort of useful utilities -- in fact, most of the > things in the ports tree is a great utility in one way or another! :) > > And this naming is confusing at best, so I suggest changing it to > "misc". That way it will be much clearer that it's not really a > category on its own right, but sort of a "catch-all" for things that > don't really belong elsewhere (and looking at the current population, > this is what they exactly are). > > We can also move games/astrolog in accordance to Andrey's old > complaint. :) I don't see any reason not to let you do what you want, but this change seems to be a little more gratuitous than all the rest. I mean, like you say, everything is Unix is a utility, so I don't see where "misc" gives any more or less info to users than "utils". > > Satoshi > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: