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Date:      Sun, 25 May 1997 10:52:57 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
Cc:        bgingery@gtcs.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, GNATS Management <gnats@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/3657: HyperNews port submitted
Message-ID:  <19970525105257.54462@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970521224652.16887A-100000@nexis.net>; from James FitzGibbon on Wed, May 21, 1997 at 10:47:53PM -0400
References:  <199705212302.RAA26093@home.gtcs.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970521224652.16887A-100000@nexis.net>

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> > >Category:       ports
> > >Synopsis:       Port of NCSA HyperNews submitted as p5-hypernews
> 
> I noticed that you submitted this with a "p5-" prefix.  Just to let you
> know, that's for Perl 5 modules from CPAN, not just any program that uses
> perl5 to do it's work.

Any real reason for this rule?  As a ports user, I really don't care
*where* something comes from.  I'll read the MASTER_SITES if I do.
However, as a budding Perl hacker (well I hope) I do care if a port is
for Perl5.
 
-- 
-- David	(obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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