From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 18:27:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC515106568D for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:27:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1548FC13 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27454 invoked by uid 399); 16 Feb 2010 18:27:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 16 Feb 2010 18:27:56 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B7AE3AC.5040908@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:56 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Schot References: <20100216153323.GA28829@A-Eskwadraat.nl> In-Reply-To: <20100216153323.GA28829@A-Eskwadraat.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Combining multiple programs in single port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:27:58 -0000 On 2/16/2010 7:33 AM, Jeroen Schot wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to provide a port for a set of small utilities[1], all in the same > scope and from the same upstream, to FreeBSD. Since all are very small > (around 100 line of C), making seven separate ports seems a bit > overkill. Given that these are distinctly different tools, and seem to have their own individual sources, different ports would be the way to go. hth, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/