From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 25 18:40:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20672 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 18:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20635; Sun, 25 May 1997 18:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 18:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705260140.SAA20635@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports Cc: From: James FitzGibbon Subject: Re: ports/3657: HyperNews port submitted Reply-To: James FitzGibbon Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR ports/3657; it has been noted by GNATS. From: James FitzGibbon To: "David O'Brien" Cc: bgingery@gtcs.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, GNATS Management , freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3657: HyperNews port submitted Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 21:28:11 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 25 May 1997, David O'Brien wrote: > > I noticed that you submitted this with a "p5-" prefix. Just to let you > > know, that's for Perl 5 modules from CPAN, not just any program that uses > > perl5 to do it's work. > > Any real reason for this rule? As a ports user, I really don't care > *where* something comes from. I'll read the MASTER_SITES if I do. > However, as a budding Perl hacker (well I hope) I do care if a port is > for Perl5. The prefix was in lieu of putting them into a separate perl5 directory. The fact that they come from CPAN is irrelevant; the fact that they are perl5 modules as opposed to something that uses perl5. The best way to summarize is that ports with a p5- prefix are not standalone programs; they are building blocks for programs written in perl. I would have preferred that they went into their own directory and lost the prefix, but I lost that arguement with Satoshi a year ago and haven't brought it up since. -- j.