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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:12:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Package system flaws?
Message-ID:  <200207082012.g68KCsda033307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200207081946.g68Jk5NB071231@dotar.thuvia.org>
References:  <200207081946.g68Jk5NB071231@dotar.thuvia.org>

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<<On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:46:05 +0100 (BST), Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> said:

> As much as I hate to rely on it in general, for specific applications
> filename conventions can be very useful.  What do your extensions do
> that a suffix of -gtk.tar.gz in the archive TOC doesn't?

Avoids encoding kluges like that into archives and archivers.

-GAWollman


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