From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 8 13:12:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B705637B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C34A43E52 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g68KCtRC033313; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:12:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g68KCsda033307; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:12:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:12:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200207082012.g68KCsda033307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Valentine Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? In-Reply-To: <200207081946.g68Jk5NB071231@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <200207081946.g68Jk5NB071231@dotar.thuvia.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message