Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 07:47:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deriving base port/package names In-Reply-To: <20160408144957.26ad363f@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <51300.1460083670@server1.tristatelogic.com> <5707b24b.9143620a.1a679.ffffbb00SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <20160408144957.26ad363f@gumby.homeunix.com>
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> A port name can contain digits and hyphens, so this could remove > part of the name. As in: `pkg rquery -a %n | grep -- '-[0-9]' | fmt` efax-0.9a font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi font-adobe-utopia-100dpi font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-bh-100dpi font-bh-75dpi font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi font-bitstream-100dpi font-bitstream-75dpi gl-117 gnome-2048 ja-edict-utf-8 ja-kon2-14dot ja-kon2-16dot ja-rubygem-mail-iso-2022-jp krb5-112 krb5-113 krb5-114 liblqr-1 libutf-8 linux-enemyterritory-jaymod-217 linux-enemyterritory-omni-bot-0660 nvidia-driver-304 nvidia-driver-340 onscripter-1byte p5-Acme-6502 p5-Business-OnlinePayment-2CheckOut p5-Chemistry-3DBuilder p5-WWW-2ch p5-WWW-Shorten-0rz ppmd-7z qt5-3d quake2-3zb2 stf-6rd-kmod vte3-290 xhtml-11 xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi Some of us see this as a weakness in the standard. That plus the lack of documentation where you'd expect to find it violates the principles of least surprise and KIS. Roger
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