Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20863: [NEW PORT] Utility for searching the ports tree Message-ID: <200008261930.MAA47108@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/20863; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/20863: [NEW PORT] Utility for searching the ports tree Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:48:06 +0100 On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:22:37PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake marko@FreeBSD.ORG (marko@FreeBSD.ORG): > > > A utility for searching the ports tree. It allows more > > detailed search criteria than ``make search key=<string>'' > > and accepts all perl(1) regular expressions > > Nice! > Thanks > but: > > > # /usr/ports/sysutils/sp > > This name is way too short, it should be called portsearch or similar. > I was upholding the fine Unix tradition of brevity and terseness :) > On the other hand, it could also be imported into the ports Tools dir > (my favourite) > Who needs to approve that, asami? > Alex > > -- > cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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