From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 30 18: 7:13 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F09153CC; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA93891; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:06:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:06:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Kris Kennaway , Chris Piazza , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL In-Reply-To: <41279.930726458@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Kris Kennaway write > s: > > >I'd hate to see this set a precedent for committing things as ports which are > >much better as trivial shell aliases or 1-line scripts. Maybe instead we could > >create a page of 'useful aliases' or something to which people could make > >their contributions. > > Yeah, maybe a lower limit for ports: If it can be done in 80 char or > less from the command line it shouldn't be a port. I'd go a step further: If the FreeBSD port's Makefile is larger than the port's sources, we don't need it. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message