From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 26 12:30:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F90937B422 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA47108; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008261930.MAA47108@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Mark Ovens Subject: Re: ports/20863: [NEW PORT] Utility for searching the ports tree Reply-To: Mark Ovens Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/20863; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mark Ovens To: Alexander Langer 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='' > > 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