From owner-freebsd-ports Sat May 31 02:16:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA14804 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA14799 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id LAA25400; Sat, 31 May 1997 11:15:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05989; Sat, 31 May 1997 00:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970531003853.34952@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 00:38:53 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Satoshi Asami Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: want to discuss three new variables in the ports collection References: <19970529120325.08347@klemm.gtn.com> <199705302201.PAA25743@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 In-Reply-To: <199705302201.PAA25743@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Fri, May 30, 1997 at 03:01:28PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, May 30, 1997 at 03:01:28PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Hi ! > > Hi! (BTW, I'm not "satoshi@freebsd.org". :) Was a ,quick shot' ;-) > * 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? :) Ok. > 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. Ok, DESCR or MESSAGE would be fine. -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html