Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:33:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: scott@statsci.com, jacs@gnome.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package names Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951216123132.2631A-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512160815.AAA00749@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: [some deletions] > * I don't think it'd be good to be renaming the ports directories or not > * every time the port is updated, so I wouldn't include the package version > * in the directory name. Could put it as a variable in the ports/Makefile > * and include it in the package name generated by the Makefile? > > The version numbers are never part of the ports directories, unless > the old versions are not overwritten because the new versions are > popular but unstable/incompatible (e.g., netscape2, tcl74), so don't > worry about that. > > 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. > > Hmm, what do people think? Will the package directories look too > cluttered if we add this to every single package name? (Of course, > we'll delete the original from the ftp site as soon as we build the > new one, but the names will be longer....) > > Satoshi > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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