From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 22 17:23:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA00979 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:23:07 -0800 Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA00974 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:23:03 -0800 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id UAA20354; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 20:23:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.6.4) id UAA14183; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 20:23:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 20:22:59 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu To: Satoshi Asami cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal 5: utils -> misc In-Reply-To: <199511222228.OAA19821@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * 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". OK. Semantics, I'd make a horrible salesman (such meanings don't make that much difference to me), but I understand. > > Satoshi > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: