From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 31 16:50:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D813737B738; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27694; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id QAA36026; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:50:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:50:13 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: Ade Lovett , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/15545: New port: x11/xterm Message-ID: <20000331165013.D35152@tao.thought.org> References: <200003300200.SAA03085@freefall.freebsd.org> <200003300920.BAA47089@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000330075635.I312@supernews.com> <20000401013841.B581@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000401013841.B581@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 01:38:41AM +0200 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 01:38:41AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Ade Lovett: > > > > Why not have the port rename the executable and app-default file to > > > something else? (nxterm? xterm-the-next-generation :)?) and allow both > > > flavours to coexist? > > > > Precisely. If it does this, then all my objections go away > > If this was your point all along, you could have said so directly. > :-/ > > > If the submitter (or someone else) wants to take this port and > > patch it so that it identifies itself as nxterm, pxterm, or > > whatever, > > Suggestions? > nxterm has been abused by Red Hat for different flavors of xterm. > Thomas Dickey suggests xfree86-xterm, which is however both clumsy > and counter-intuitive. > nxterm has a ring to it.... gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message