From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 25 10:53:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA01112 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 10:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.175.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA01072; Sun, 25 May 1997 10:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (reqf-102.ucdavis.edu [128.120.253.222]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA01815; Sun, 25 May 1997 10:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA23438; Sun, 25 May 1997 17:52:58 GMT Message-ID: <19970525105257.54462@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 10:52:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: James FitzGibbon Cc: bgingery@gtcs.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, GNATS Management , freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3657: HyperNews port submitted References: <199705212302.RAA26093@home.gtcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 In-Reply-To: ; from James FitzGibbon on Wed, May 21, 1997 at 10:47:53PM -0400 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >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)