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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:28:47 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Ports of multiple versions of the same program
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We are getting a lot of parallell ports of the same program,
such as a2ps and a2ps-43, tripwire and tripewire-131, etc.

Most of these exists for some fairly good reason; however, it is
close to impossible for us mere mortals to tell what this reason
*is*, as updating pkg-descr when a port is split seems to be
the exception rather than the rule.

Please try to document why there are two ports - not doing so just
creates endless user confusion.  I can sometimes tell from the CVS
logs, but we can't expect our users to do that.

Thanks!

Eivind.


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