Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 20:42:12 +0100 From: Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org> To: Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: Renamed Haskell Applications Message-ID: <20100526194212.GA43676@charon.picobyte.net> In-Reply-To: <4BFBDBC0.6040902@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BFBDBC0.6040902@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:16:32PM +0200, Gabor PALI wrote: > > Recently I have tagged the following popular but Cabalized > applications > in the Ports Collection with the "hs-" prefix: > > - darcs [1]: devel/darcs -> devel/hs-darcs > - pandoc [2]: textproc/pandoc -> textproc/hs-pandoc > - xmonad [3]: x11-wm/xmonad -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad, x11-wm/xmonad-contrib > -> x11-wm/hs-xmonad-contrib > - xmobar [4]: x11/xmobar -> x11/hs-xmobar > [snip] > > Please send "+1" or "-1" depending on whether you support or object > this > change. Thank you! > -1 I tend to agree with Dmitry, for the reasons he articulated. In the case of end-user applications, the language of choice generally is of no concern to the user. However: we lack consistency elsewhere in ports with the other prefixes. This probably just stirs things up even more. :-) -- Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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