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Date:      Sun, 25 May 1997 11:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        freebsd-ports
Subject:   Re: ports/3657: HyperNews port submitted
Message-ID:  <199705251800.LAA01377@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/3657; it has been noted by GNATS.

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
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 10:52:57 -0700

 > > >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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