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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 01:38:41 +0200
From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/15545: New port: x11/xterm
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Ade Lovett:

> > Why not have the port rename the executable and app-default file to
> > something else? (nxterm? xterm-the-next-generation :)?) and allow both
> > flavours to coexist?
> 
> Precisely.  If it does this, then all my objections go away

If this was your point all along, you could have said so directly.
:-/

> If the submitter (or someone else) wants to take this port and
> patch it so that it identifies itself as nxterm, pxterm, or
> whatever,

Suggestions?
nxterm has been abused by Red Hat for different flavors of xterm.
Thomas Dickey suggests xfree86-xterm, which is however both clumsy
and counter-intuitive.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de


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