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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:21:20 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Johannes Jost Meixner <xmj@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r377721 - in head/devel/newfile: . files
Message-ID:  <20150123122120.GA91455@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <54C234F6.4070805@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201501231039.t0NAdYS5095664@svn.freebsd.org> <20150123110243.GA64051@FreeBSD.org> <54C234F6.4070805@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:48:06PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 23/01/2015 10:02 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > TBH, we should have never allowed to have dotted port names in the first
> > place.  It already caused problems with e.g. ".core"-suffixed ports that
> > had to be renamed or something like that in the past.  I think it's quite
> > clear that using dot in names is asking for trouble (and such names look
> > plain ugly), but people just can't refrain from using dot. :-(  Maybe it
> > is some kind of mental disorder similar to incomprehensible predilection
> > some people exhibit to Comic Sans font.
> 
> Blame me, I asked for it. POLA violation when I ran port create. It
> created py-gandi
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gandi.cli

It would all be much easier if those dotted ports were s/\./-/g prior to
adding them.

./danfe



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