From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 20:16:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0281065670; Wed, 26 May 2010 20:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF6F8FC1E; Wed, 26 May 2010 20:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj21 with SMTP id 21so816668gwj.13 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 13:16:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:date:from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent :x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; bh=Tqe8IDoF2qJ0AKxob0S4lPZaARkSH7LkcBfURnzCi0M=; b=VgyHaXIw+vSWVRNu4tsJD7Ca8o0xKUXTxJb0+a/QGIuWTDTjQNimkC7RQlxBoasuN5 mYEkzfET3/TBrv4it0vCqxNUjJLpBHZdfaSHe+IeaFV37LD7D4BQx915AQh2f/aq3ejJ /fZ1JfLqGKC51MgFIMJNNrEfY9IqQSmfEWHoY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=gEoHcQ+gq8UjmgNblX80efZubGiT6vLBgLQpauqbsnH9Knh7Gs7ygIIT3b9AwjXAl7 hHfS+g8qm3D/WIh/jf16PKTB7ZowqxSGYrcTR8uhWElW1UakKMsc+72XUrQuASMCo047 UJdebI8do2YoPKyhhFAK2NDFL4lTDxNzIqhWA= Received: by 10.101.2.32 with SMTP id e32mr10654722ani.73.1274904989510; Wed, 26 May 2010 13:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from centel.dataix.local (adsl-99-19-40-41.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.19.40.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n18sm2142295anl.2.2010.05.26.13.16.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 May 2010 13:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:16:16 -0400 From: jhell To: Dmitry Marakasov In-Reply-To: <20100526154941.GC25216@hades.panopticon> Message-ID: References: <4BFBDBC0.6040902@FreeBSD.org> <4BFC1D3D.7070904@dataix.net> <20100526154941.GC25216@hades.panopticon> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x89D8547E X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A 9057 8789 89D8 547E MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Gabor PALI , freebsd-haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: Renamed Haskell Applications 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: Wed, 26 May 2010 20:16:31 -0000 On Wed, 26 May 2010 11:49, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: In Message-Id: <20100526154941.GC25216@hades.panopticon> > * jhell (jhell@dataix.net) wrote: > >>> Recently I have tagged the following popular but Cabalized applications >>> in the Ports Collection with the "hs-" prefix: >>> >>> - darcs [1]: devel/darcs -> devel/hs-darcs >>> - pandoc [2]: textproc/pandoc -> textproc/hs-pandoc >>> - xmonad [3]: x11-wm/xmonad -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad, x11-wm/xmonad-contrib >>> -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad-contrib >>> - xmobar [4]: x11/xmobar -> x11/hs-xmobar >> >> +1 > > Why do you think it's good to not have a port named the same as an > application? > > Normally I would object to something like this but in this case being that it is about Haskell applications, the change helps users locate all of the Haskell related ports quicker. Its almost as if the hs-* ports were in their own category like the ports-mgmt tools are. For another part upgrading these will also be a slight bit smoother and locating what Haskell packages you have on your system will be easier just specifying hs-* to a upgrade tool or to pkg_de[lete|install]. Regards, -- jhell