Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906302101020.93807-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906301631130.8049-100000@bragg>
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. I'm not sure all would agree, but seeing as I think that ports is way too overweight to begin with, and this is a great target, I'd like to see it axed so as to stand out as an example of what's not acceptable, a precedent, as it were. We could easily accumulate hundreds of these nearly useless one-liners. They do no good to anyone, and appending that whacked-out license to it sure makes it a great "target of opportunity". ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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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