From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 30 0:10:54 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A6814D1E; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8392F73D; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:10:49 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: Kris Kennaway Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL Message-ID: <19990630001049.B36035@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <19990629235629.A36035@norn.ca.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:35:09PM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:35:09PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. OK, I agree. Unless there's an objection (which I don't think there will be) I'll remove it in a few minutes. Good idea for the FAQ (or wherever, though.) -Chris -- cpiazza@home.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org "He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news." -Bertolt Brencht To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message