On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:22:11PM -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Please rename "valgrind-devel-port" to "valgrind-snapshot-port". > > > > I think I suggested the name valgrind-devel but I have no idea what the > > latest port naming conventions are. If valgrind-snapshot is more > > consistent, then thats the name it should have. > > Searching though the ports tree, I don't see any ports called > -snapshot. Some snapshot ports have a date stamp (eg, > gcc-3.3.4_20040322). There are dozens of -devel ports which are > unstable development versions of the regular ports (mutt-devel, > rxvt-devel, postgresql-devel, etc). We've had them in the past. > Many linux distributions use a -devel package for header files, which > they separate out from the main library package. Let's not go there. Yes, and FreeBSD has too.[*] This situaion is why "-devel" is a piss-poor name for these type of ports. "-snapshot" or "-indevel" are properly descriptive. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org) [*] And I would like to see a lot more of these, as I generally use Kris's packages vs. building from ports and I end up with a lot more crap on my system than I need.Received on Sun Apr 25 2004 - 06:56:45 UTC
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