Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:01:28 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: want to discuss three new variables in the ports collection Message-ID: <199705302201.PAA25743@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970529120325.08347@klemm.gtn.com> (message from Andreas Klemm on Thu, 29 May 1997 12:03:25 %2B0200)
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* Hi ! Hi! (BTW, I'm not "satoshi@freebsd.org". :) * What would you think about introducing three new variables * into the ports mechanism ?! HOMEPAGE, AUTHOR and * MAILINGLIST ?! Others have already commented on this, so I'll keep it short. I would not like to have a mailing address of the author in a port/package. The last thing we would like to have is novice FreeBSD users blindly spewing questions in the original author's direction without even checking the docs that come with the package. (We don't want to look like aol or webtv, do we? :) However, I think having the homepage (which is more of a documentation than an easy help address) readily available is a good idea. So I would like to recommend porters to put it in DESCR or MESSAGE. Satoshi
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