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Date:      Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:41:50 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        esbjerg@xbsd.net
Subject:   Re: changing a Makefile based on user input
Message-ID:  <4112634E.8090002@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040805155012.GA71609@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20040805124822.GE82359@esbjerg.name> <20040805133921.GA70345@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040805143014.GA84047@esbjerg.name> <20040805155012.GA71609@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:30:14PM +0200, Sven Esbjerg wrote:
>>>Note that there is already a misc/rtfm port, with is an unrelated
>>>piece of software.  You could perhaps call your port 'rt-faq-manager'.
>>  
>> Hmmm... I guess that would be possible. My first thought was RTFM.
> 
> Yeah -- that could work too.  I don't think there would be any problem
> with having two ports of the same name except for case differences,
> but ICBW.

Requiring case-sensitive filenames is not a good idea if you can choose 
otherwise.  There are lots of filesystems (ISO-9660, HFS+, CIFS) which can't 
distinguish between a directory called "rtfm" and one called "RTFM", some of 
which are even used by people running FreeBSD.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck



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