From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 13 09:40:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FF816A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:40:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bremen.shuttle.de (bremen.shuttle.de [194.95.249.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8929543D1D for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:40:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schweikh@schweikhardt.net) Received: by bremen.shuttle.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 9C7ED3BA4A; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal9000.schweikhardt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i5D9dCYp004025; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:39:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from schweikh@hal9000.schweikhardt.net) Received: (from schweikh@localhost)i5D9dCXj004024; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:39:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from schweikh) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:39:12 +0200 From: Jens Schweikhardt To: Oliver Eikemeier Message-ID: <20040613093912.GB1260@schweikhardt.net> References: <763723AC-BCA6-11D8-B633-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <763723AC-BCA6-11D8-B633-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD ports Subject: Re: port names and personal freedom X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:40:16 -0000 On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:26:53PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: # Dear porters, # # I'm just trying to add some vulnerabilities to the list that have been # forgotten recently. In this process I had to discover that we have a # new trend to creative naming in the ports tree. We have funny names like # # www/apache13-modperl -> apache+mod_perl-1.3.31 # (LATEST_LINK=apache+mod_perl) # # mail/sendmail-ldap -> sendmail+tls+sasl2+ldap-8.12.11 # (LATEST_LINK=sendmail+tls+sasl2+ldap) # # net/samba3 (LATEST_LINK=samba-3) # # ... the list goes on. At the risk of starting another bikeshed about the # personal # freedom of maintainers to name their port how they please, why TF does # this have # to be? Do we have any benefit from that? Is `plus' as a package suffix # separator # en vouge this summer? Would adding a check in portlint help? Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)