Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:24:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Masafumi NAKANE <max@wide.ad.jp>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/textproc/gdict - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909071120540.40981-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19990906215524.A20652@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > Looking at textproc/dict/pkg/DESCR, I was thinking dict and gdict > > should go into the net category. Of course, net category is another > > solution, though. > > I wholly disagree. dict and gdict have nothing to do with a network > other than they can access dictionaries over it. But there is no basic > network-related functionality here, contrast with ping, traceroute, > bandwidth testers, DNS, etc... > > If dict and gdict belong in "net", then so does the various xterm ports > as they can operate over a network too. The point of categorization is so that folks can more easily find ports. Tell us how an ordinary user would possibly associate either dict or gdict as a "net" category. It hasn't anything at all to do with the fact that it merely makes use of network features, it's whether the port's main function is associated with net. Neither of these even remotely fall into the net category, given this reasoning. Could be one of several others, editors, textproc, misc even. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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