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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:43:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Michael Haro <mharo@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: linux port category
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002131742490.23833-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000213144040.A43802@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Michael Haro wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 06:20:38PM -0800, Chris Piazza wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm..  This port would be greatly simplified if we had something like
> > a linux ports category where linux libraries could be installed from.
> > 
> > Does anyone think this would be a good idea?  Are we going to have 
> > enough linux binary ports to make this worth it?
> 
> I was thinking about this yesterday as well.  I was also thinking of 
> possibly prepending linux ports with `lnx-' or something to show that 
> this is the linux version of port xyz.

Seeing as we have both freebsd-native and linux versions of netscape, and
it's hard to tell the difference, using a Linux category for them would be
a good thing to do for clarity, also.

> 
> Michael
> 
> 

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Chuck Robey            | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr@picnic.mat.net  | electronics, communications, and signal processing.

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