From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 5 7:51:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from coredump.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B43837BCBC; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by coredump.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.14 #1) id 12yyDl-0004rt-00; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 09:51:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:51:17 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: recent imports Message-ID: <20000605095116.B97439@FreeBSD.org> References: <20000604125031.A546@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <393B9FF5.56D8B077@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <393B9FF5.56D8B077@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:41:25PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:41:25PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > IMHO it is very strange idea to put archivers capable to handle archives used > on other OSes into emulators category. Well said. Indeed, we should also move netpbm and ghostscript, since they can (optionally) create MS bitmaps and so on.. The original imports were all archivers of some kind, so thats where they should go. I think we have a number of more wide-ranging issues (especially the optional dependency stuff, multi-level port hierarchies etc..) that we can spend our time better talking (arguing?) about.. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message