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To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/GUIDELINES 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:20:59 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:12:57 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In message <199509260920.CAA13098@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>, Satoshi Asami write
s:
>This file is obsolete, it's superseded by section 4.3 of the handbook.
>May I replace it with a file with "Please see the `Porting
>Applications' section of the handbook, available from...."?

Nuke it altogether. Along with /usr/share/FAQ/Text/ports.FAQ. Probably
leave a top level ``README'' with pointers to the relevant locations.

(I just re-read ports.FAQ after a friend contacted me and said ``I've
 read ports.FAQ but I still don't know what the fsck a port
 is. HELP!?!?!?!??''. It's evil. It should die. It will die. It has
 been foretold :-) What was embarassing was he realised that I was the
 original author :-( Oh well ... ).

Moral: it helps if you actually have some FAQ's to put in your FAQ
       before you start :-)

Gary

P.S. No, he didn't say ``fsck''. I'll leave it up to your imagination
     what the real word he used was ;-)