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Subject: Re: excessively long DESCRs 
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
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> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) 
>
> The file pkg/DESCR is supposed to be (quoting from the handbook):
...
> I attached a list of files that are longer than 24 lines to this mail,
> please see if you can make them nice and concise.
...
>     134 mail/exmh/pkg/DESCR

_Finally_  ports/mail/exmh/  arrives :-)	Over A Year Late !!!
I offered an EXMH port before Christmas (December) 1995, & repeat offered 
it numerous times since. 

Even if the new official port doesn't conform, mine always has:
http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/\
		src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/generic/./mail/exmh/pkg/DESCR
wc -l :	4 lines !
]	EXMH - a TK front end to the MH mail system.  Uses X-Windows.
]	
]	Allows you to use the `vi' or `emacs' editors,
]	(whereas `xmh' mandates `emacs')

Peter Wemm, who is Maintainer of the new official exmh/ port,
might have been saved the effort of writing an exmh port if _someone else_
had not consistently refused to accept my port, starting a year ago.
Users would also not have had to wait the year !

There's good bits & bad bits in each of the 2 ports, (mine is a version
out of date, as I upgraded it once, then gave up wasting my time.
Certain FreeBSD oligarchs have a touch of NIH ~ `Not Written By Us',
that has cost FreeBSD a year's wait for a port that still does not conform.
but at least Peter Wemm _has_ managed to get us an EXMH, Thanks Peter :-)

I'll look at my port, find any improvements that may exist,
& mail you diffs based on yours, then delete mine.

Julian
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Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/