Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:35:09 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906301631130.8049-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <19990629235629.A36035@norn.ca.eu.org>
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
> > Joking aside, does this port really do anything other than spit newlines to
> > the terminal? If so, I'm not sure it warrants being an entire port.
>
> I see your point, as that is all it does, but it's along the same
> lines as having a unix2dos port when the FAQ clearly has a few
> examples using regular expressions and tr to do the same thing.
> Admittedly it's not quite the same, and I can remove it if it's
> deemed unworthy.
I'd hate to see this set a precedent for committing things as ports which are
much better as trivial shell aliases or 1-line scripts. Maybe instead we could
create a page of 'useful aliases' or something to which people could make
their contributions.
Kris
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