From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 11:27:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242BB37B449 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4BIUgj02005; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggesting an application to be added to ports collection... Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:30:42 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <01051109140600.01879@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> <3AFC156A.FBB04725@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <3AFC156A.FBB04725@optonline.net> Cc: Gerard Samuel MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051111304200.01983@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I'll bite. ;-) I've scanned chapter 4 of the Handbook and I haven't found anything on how to suggest that an app be ported. Lots on how to port apps and how to submit ported apps... M. On Friday 11 May 2001 09:38, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Read the handbook. There is a chapter and a link on ports and the porting > guide. > > Michael O'Henly wrote: > > There's a new KDE application (Ktexmaker2) which I'd like to be able to > > use. I'm new to FreeBSD and I need to learn more about its conventions > > and directory structure before I start installing stuff from sources, > > however. > > > > Is there a mechanism for suggesting that a given app be ported? > > > > Thanks. > > > > M. > > > > -- > > Michael O'Henly > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message