Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 05:47:00 +0900 From: Masafumi NAKANE <max@wide.ad.jp> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, cpiazza@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/textproc/rand - Imported sources Message-ID: <19990907054700C.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 5 Sep 1999 22:02:16 -0400" <19990905220216.B70327@mad> References: <19990905220216.B70327@mad>
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I agree with your opinion on pagers. But does rand do any
``processing?''
I think the problem is the defnintion of the word ``process'' is
somewhat vague. I have no problem with putting all the sgml/xml stuff
in the textproc category, but other than that, it's never clear to me
what are the criteria which make a program fall into this category.
Additionally, the existence of the converters category is making it
even more confusing to me. The converters/pkg/COMMENT says it's a
category for ``character code converters'' while it includes
uuencode/decode related stuff, which makes the definition of the
phrase ``character code'' vague. Well, I know this is irrelevant with
rand, but I believe this relates to the unclearness of the textproc
category definition.
Cheers,
Max
>> > Import of rand, a cat-like utility that displays the lines of a file
>> > or stream in random order.
>>
>> If this belongs in textproc, less and most (and probably a few others)
>> should be in this category as well, or vice versa, I believe.
> I'm not sure I agree. Pagers (less and most) don't really _process_
> text. Well...at least, I don't think they do. They're closer to
> editors than textproc, imho.
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