Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:58:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/snooper/pkg DESCR Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908222056060.49952-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199908222101.OAA81790@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > hoek 1999/08/22 14:01:35 PDT > > Modified files: > comms/snooper/pkg DESCR > Log: > Fit this into 23 lines. Clean it up a little, too. > > Ugh. pkg/DESCR is an advertisement for your port, people. It seems to > me that if I was writing a port for some peice of software that I liked, > I would try to make it look nice to the rest of the world, who might never > even use it otherwise. True, and I wish the string of people who post ports but completely ignore writing out even the vaguest hint about what the port actually does would stop and think twice about doing that. A few words on the post advertising the new port would, at the very least, be courteous. This is in addition to Tim's very correct comment about the DESCR file; it's an even worse thing. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.2 +4 -6 ports/comms/snooper/pkg/DESCR > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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