From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 5 5:41:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (blizzard.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C024F37B7DA; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 05:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.106]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22855; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:40:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA50175; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:41:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <393B9FF5.56D8B077@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:41:25 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Satoshi Asami , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: recent imports References: <20000604125031.A546@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > Hi Satoshi, > > Other members of the project told me about your email regarding the > recent imports I did of several archivers from NetBSD (strangely enough, > I never received either one). You said that macutils, unlzx, undms, and > others belonged in emulators because they handle archives used on other > operating systems. The macutil import was a blunder, for sure (I should > have done a ``make search key'' at the least). However, I've never seen > anything in the PH/PCG stating that programs intended to handle archiving > formats primarily used on other OSs should go in emulators. Personally, > I see no good reason why they should be in emulators. Perhaps you could > clear up the matter for me ? IMHO it is very strange idea to put archivers capable to handle archives used on other OSes into emulators category. Under this assumption we probably should move stuff like Gnumeric, KOffice. AbiWord, StarOffice etc. into emulators as well just because those programs allow using data created on other platforms (most notably Win32/MSOffice). -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message