From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 5 23: 8:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b058.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B305437B61A; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 23:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA07289; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 02:08:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 02:08:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Will Andrews , Satoshi Asami , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: recent imports In-Reply-To: <393B9FF5.56D8B077@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > IMHO it is very strange idea to put archivers capable to handle archives used > on other OSes into emulators category. Under this assumption we probably should > move stuff like Gnumeric, KOffice. AbiWord, StarOffice etc. into emulators as > well just because those programs allow using data created on other platforms > (most notably Win32/MSOffice). Or you can look at this way: these (archiver) programs don't EMULATE diddly-squat. They are stand-alone programs that have their own opinions as to how things should be done, their own flags, etc. This kind of thing requires a bit of "looking forward into the political aspects" of this decision. Do we want FreeBSD to be known as a system that emulates DOS (where "emulation" usually has a negative feeling about it - I have yet to find an emulator that can't be distinguished from the original), or as a system that handles Macintosh files just as easily as a Mac does? --mike - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Understated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period: From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section: "FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities." ...duh....... Mike Nowlin, N8NVW mike@argos.org http://www.viewsnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message