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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:56:07 +0530
From:      wahjava@gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>, freebsd-haskell@haskell.org, Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Renamed Haskell Applications
Message-ID:  <86fx15qu3k.fsf@chateau.d.if>
In-Reply-To: <20100602153805.GD21354@hades.panopticon> (Dmitry Marakasov's message of "Wed, 2 Jun 2010 19:38:05 %2B0400")
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Dmitry Marakasov writes:
> * Ashish SHUKLA (wahjava.ml@gmail.com) wrote:

>> > I strictly object to adding hs- prefix to end-user applications like
>> > darcs and xmonad, because it's a huge POLA violation. Users do not care
>> > what the application is written in, they just search for
>> > devel/{svn,mercurial,darcs} and x11-wm/{xmonad,icewm}, and should find
>> > these ports in the expected places. We don't prefix mercurial with
>> > py- and icewm with c-, similarily we shouldn't prefix darcs et al with
>> > hs-. Modules that are used only for development and as dependencies is=
 a
>> > whole different thing, and definitely are what prefixes are for.
>>=20
>> I agree with you, but by a pre-existing convention (not carved in stone
>> anywhere, AFAIK) in FreeBSD, I prefer keeping ports prefixed with
>> 'hs-'.=20
>>=20
>> 1. Padre, which is an editor hacked in Perl is available from a port nam=
ed
>> 'p5-Padre'.
>>=20
>> 2. SpamAssassin, an anti-spam filter is available as 'p5-Mail-SpamAssass=
in'.
>>=20
>> 3. Pencil which is a mockup based out-of firefox is available as
>> 'www/xpi-pencil', which even doesn't have anything to do with World Wide
>> Web except that it runs in a www browser, still has name/category like
>> that.
>>=20
>> 4.  Conkeror, the web browser is available as 'xpi-conkeror'.

> Those all should probably be fixed.

Fine, I completely agree with you now. So lets file PRs for renaming them.

Thanks
=2D-=20
Ashish SHUKLA

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