Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:53:18 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Michael Haro <mharo@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux port category Message-ID: <20000213145318.B60358@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002131742490.23833-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:43:47PM -0500 References: <20000213144040.A43802@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002131742490.23833-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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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
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