From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 22 14:28:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA16461 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:28:27 -0800 Received: from forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU (forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.33.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA16454 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:28:23 -0800 Received: (from asami@localhost) by forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA19821; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:28:17 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:28:17 -0800 Message-Id: <199511222228.OAA19821@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu CC: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:42:21 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Proposal 5: utils -> misc From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk * I don't see any reason not to let you do what you want, but this change * seems to be a little more gratuitous than all the rest. I mean, like you * say, everything is Unix is a utility, so I don't see where "misc" gives * any more or less info to users than "utils". One, it will let porters think once more before adding stuff to it. It wasn't a long time before it filled up and "sysutils" and "emulators" were spawned off, and it's starting to grow again! Two, it will provide a "catch-all" for things that truly don't belong elsewhere, like "astrolog". Satoshi