From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jun 7 20:36:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19579 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:36:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fortwayne-max-4-19.fwi.com [209.84.173.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19523 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11536; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20491; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 22:35:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: Donald Burr , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/6886 References: <199806080224.TAA06378@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 07 Jun 1998 22:35:06 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Donald Burr's message of "Sun, 07 Jun 1998 19:33:08 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <86hg1wzhud.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Donald Burr writes: > Something occurred to me about 5 seconds too late (i.e. after I exited > send-pr...) :) > > Does this justify a port of its own, or should it be rolled into the main > GIMP port (respecting NOPORTDOCS, of course)? > > I don't mind doing either one, but I figured I should probably ask for > opinions first, because (for obvious reasons) I really want to DTRT the > first time around, :) > > Opinions, anyone? Give it a port of it's own. Back when my ports of the Emacs Lisp manual and Elisp tutorial were committed I recall someone raising the possibility of a new 'doc' category. It sounded like a good idea to me, but nothing came of it. I've never been overly sure if the ports collection was supposed to be neat and/or useful things to add to your system or just neat and/or useful things that need some changes first before they can be added. If the latter, how extensive do the changes need to be? Personally, I've gotten into the habit of searching the ports collection first when I'm looking for something, then doing web searches with an eye to porting whatever turns up. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message