Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:16:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/18454: Conflict: 'nedit' and 'netcat' ports. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005081414320.3555-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200005082110.OAA89419@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> No.
Carefull, Bill, you're turning into Garrett Wollman :-)
Perhaps what Bill meant to say is that nc (as netcat) is used by a lot of
other software and scripts out there, all of whom expect it to be in the
canonical name 'nc'. nedit is the one which should be changed since
(AFAIK) nothing else relies on it being called that.
Kris
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