From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 9 15: 8:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475B915913; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA234874944; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:09:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:09:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola Reply-To: Bill Fumerola To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: tom@eborcom.com, mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW_SITE variable In-Reply-To: <199904090740.AAA98824@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > These changes were not approved. We have been putting homepages in > pkg/DESCR for years. I don't see any need in adding yet another knob > to an already solved problem (which unsolves part of it...for > instance, how is the package user supposed to see it?). The only advantage I see, though, is the generation of links in http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/*.html 'Main Web Site', which is kinda neat. > I told scrappy to back them out a few weeks ago, he said he will, but > has been "too busy" and that's why they are still there. Hmmm, oh how I wished I read this message before I went in and made my changes to clean up some of the WWW_SITE stuff. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message