From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 3 19:19:34 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB99537C62F; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 19:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca41-211.ix.netcom.com [209.111.208.211]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20283; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 22:18:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id TAA83083; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 19:18:20 -0700 (PDT) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Andrews , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers Makefile ports/archivers/macutil Makefile ports/archivers/macutil/files md5 ports/archivers/macutil/patches patch-aa ports/archivers/macutil/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST References: From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 03 Jun 2000 19:18:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Sat, 3 Jun 2000 02:26:25 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * From: Kris Kennaway * > Thanks, but ports that deal with binary formats of other operating * > systems should go in emulators, not archivers. (Incidentally, there * > already is a port called "macutils" there....) * * This emulates nothing, it extracts files from binhex archives, analogously * to all of the other ports in archivers :-) I'm not saying it emulates anything, but we already have a few ports in emulators that work with foreign archive formats and don't emulate anything either. If people want to move those to archivers as well, that's fine with me. All I want is consistency. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message