From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 5 00:57:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id AAA22377 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 00:57:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from pegasus.tlk.com (pegasus.tlk.com [194.97.84.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA22371 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 00:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by pegasus.tlk.com via sendmail with stdio id for ports@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:56:45 +0100 (MET)) Message-Id: From: torstenb@pegasus.tlk.com (Torsten Blum) Subject: Re: news/lib - lib/news ??? In-Reply-To: <199612050459.UAA01798@precipice.shockwave.com> from Paul Traina at "Dec 4, 96 08:59:55 pm" To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:56:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Traina wrote: > I'm strongly against this change, and as the inn-current maintainer refuse > to make it (and won't let it go in). > > There's a large installed base of inn users that will get screwed the next > time they upgrade if you do this. Given that inn is the dominant news system > and /explicitly changed/ to follow this new format, I think you're making > a mistake trying to move backwards in time. > > If that's not enough, I *like* the inn directory layout. Inn is a standalone > subsystem. I _totally_ agree with Paul here. I refuse to change the "non-current" inn port too. -tb