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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources
In-Reply-To: <19990708220450.C29714@mad> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jul 8, 99 10:04:50 pm"
To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
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Tim Vanderhoek writes:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:37:40PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:21:53PM +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > That's why the port is call linux-* instead of redhat-*. It's not RH
> 
> > >                                  We also don't need 2 ports (or more for
> > > that matter), I just want to get a new version out in the open before I
> > > nuke the old one.
> 
> If this is your only goal, then the port naming was even more wrong
> than was at first apparent.
> 
> You should name one of the "linux-base" and one of them
> "linux-base-devel" if your reason for having 2 ports is as above.
> 
> I can explain the reasons that the ports system usually uses the above
> convention, if you want.

If you do, how about getting Satoshi to add them to the ports committers'
guide:

  http://www.freebsd.org/~asami/cvsguide.txt

-Archie

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