From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 30 0: 5:23 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2199014D1E; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id QAA14970; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:35:10 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA04663; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:35:09 +0930 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:35:09 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Chris Piazza Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL In-Reply-To: <19990629235629.A36035@norn.ca.eu.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > > Joking aside, does this port really do anything other than spit newlines to > > the terminal? If so, I'm not sure it warrants being an entire port. > > I see your point, as that is all it does, but it's along the same > lines as having a unix2dos port when the FAQ clearly has a few > examples using regular expressions and tr to do the same thing. > Admittedly it's not quite the same, and I can remove it if it's > deemed unworthy. I'd hate to see this set a precedent for committing things as ports which are much better as trivial shell aliases or 1-line scripts. Maybe instead we could create a page of 'useful aliases' or something to which people could make their contributions. Kris ----- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." -- Unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message