From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 13 14:53:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78B24368; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA17313; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id OAA60531; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:53:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:53:18 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Chuck Robey Cc: Michael Haro , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux port category Message-ID: <20000213145318.B60358@tao.thought.org> References: <20000213144040.A43802@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:43:47PM -0500 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:43:47PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Michael Haro wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 06:20:38PM -0800, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > > > Hmm.. This port would be greatly simplified if we had something like > > > a linux ports category where linux libraries could be installed from. > > > > > > Does anyone think this would be a good idea? Are we going to have > > > enough linux binary ports to make this worth it? > > > > I was thinking about this yesterday as well. I was also thinking of > > possibly prepending linux ports with `lnx-' or something to show that > > this is the linux version of port xyz. > > Seeing as we have both freebsd-native and linux versions of netscape, and > it's hard to tell the difference, using a Linux category for them would be > a good thing to do for clarity, also. > > > This seems like a great idea to me too. Since not all programs have BSD ports, having a /linux tree would make searching that much simpler. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message