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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:17:46 -0800
Bill Coffman <bill.coffman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Since we're on the subject, I was wondering about other conventions
> for port versions.  Sometimes it's "_1" or "_2" and sometimes it's
> like "p5-DBD-mysql40-2.9004_1".  Is there any reason for all these, or
> are they just left to the variable discretion of the port maintainer?

No. Reason:

/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html


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