Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/43880: Names of Emacs ports are misleading Message-ID: <200210170700.g9H708R4047606@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/43880; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/43880: Names of Emacs ports are misleading Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:29:16 +0930 On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 15:55:54 +0900, Yoichi NAKAYAMA wrote: > At Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:25:27 +0930 (CST), Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Description: >> >> There are currently three base Emacs ports, named >> editors/emacs, editors/emacs20 and editors/emacs21. The >> current one is editors/emacs21; the other two are obsolete. >> The naming suggests that editors/emacs is the correct one; in >> fact, this is Emacs 19.34, which is about 7 years out of date. > >>> Fix: >> >> # cd /usr/ports/editors >> # mv emacs emacs19 >> # mv emacs21 emacs > > How about just removing ports/editors/emacs ? Well, it's better than the current situation, but still not ideal. We could also remove emacs20, which is almost as ancient, and then it would make more sense to call the emacs21 port 'emacs'. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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