From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 20 04:52:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA18206 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA18200 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:52:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.7.3/8.6.9) id EAA03519; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:52:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 04:52:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512201252.EAA03519@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu CC: scott@statsci.com, jacs@gnome.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:33:26 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: package names From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk * > It is certainly possible to do something like this with the variable * > "PKGNAME". * * Doesn't DISTNAME pretty well cover this? I'm not against improvement, if * it doesn't, just being careful of adding needless clutter. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, PKGNAME is already in there. By the way, I said the same thing to Gary when he added PKGNAME in bsd.port.mk, and he explained that it's not for new functionality but simplification of ports Makefiles. Satoshi (I was a wide-eyed kid back then)