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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/43880: Names of Emacs ports are misleading
Message-ID:  <200210170700.g9H706E7047595@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/43880; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi@FreeBSD.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: ports/43880: Names of Emacs ports are misleading
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:55:54 +0900

 At Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:25:27 +0930 (CST), Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	There are currently three base Emacs ports, named
 > 	editors/emacs, editors/emacs20 and editors/emacs21.  The
 > 	current one is editors/emacs21; the other two are obsolete.
 > 	The naming suggests that editors/emacs is the correct one; in
 > 	fact, this is Emacs 19.34, which is about 7 years out of date.
 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > 	# cd /usr/ports/editors
 > 	# mv emacs emacs19
 > 	# mv emacs21 emacs
 
 How about just removing ports/editors/emacs ?
 
 Note: editors/emacs21 does not inherit the old history
 like editors/emacs20. It is the failure that occur while
 importing emacs21 (didn't repo-copied).
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Yoichi Nakayama

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