From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 14 13:27:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (adsl-64-173-25-69.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.25.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4C637B402; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g1ELRet38101; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:27:38 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Valentino Vaschetto Cc: Nik Clayton , Dima Dorfman , doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: replacement Message-ID: <20020214212738.M92878@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20020213230809.I92878@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+2GlJm56SCtLHYlr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from logo@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:28:26PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --+2GlJm56SCtLHYlr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:28:26PM -0800, Valentino Vaschetto wrote: > > 1. Definitely 'package', not 'port'. Ports are just the infrastructure > > that produce packages. >=20 > Why package? We didnt use before in our sgml > documents, so I think that we should keep it as "port". In html format, > when a user clicks on the link for net/cvsup for example, it takes them to > the cvsup port's page, and from there they have the option to download the > package. When a user clicks on the link, it doesn't go and start > downloading that package. Am I wrong? If I am, just ignore me on this > comment. FreeBSD is the odd one out in the port/package debate. Almost every other OS refers to whatever mechanism they use to easily install third party apps as 'packages'. > > We can always make these entities, something like > > > > &pkg.net.cvsup; >=20 > Deadly. If we did it this way, would'nt we have to add new entities every > time we get a new port?=20 Only when we want to refer to a new package. It's not nearly as necessary as it was with the &man.foo.n; though. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --+2GlJm56SCtLHYlr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxsK8oACgkQk6gHZCw343W68QCeIPL9Nz5kJqwwbZ/IcBJteopV ur0AnjOAofTrlNNaeV5yJt3aFoFKpXW2 =F4tx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+2GlJm56SCtLHYlr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message