From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 30 18: 5:29 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3BD153CC; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA93876; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:04:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Chris Piazza , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > Joking aside, does this port really do anything other than spit newlines to > > > the terminal? If so, I'm not sure it warrants being an entire port. > > > > I see your point, as that is all it does, but it's along the same > > lines as having a unix2dos port when the FAQ clearly has a few > > examples using regular expressions and tr to do the same thing. > > Admittedly it's not quite the same, and I can remove it if it's > > deemed unworthy. > > I'd hate to see this set a precedent for committing things as ports which are > much better as trivial shell aliases or 1-line scripts. Maybe instead we could > create a page of 'useful aliases' or something to which people could make > their contributions. I'm not sure all would agree, but seeing as I think that ports is way too overweight to begin with, and this is a great target, I'd like to see it axed so as to stand out as an example of what's not acceptable, a precedent, as it were. We could easily accumulate hundreds of these nearly useless one-liners. They do no good to anyone, and appending that whacked-out license to it sure makes it a great "target of opportunity". ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message