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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
> 
> 
> 

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