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From: Ashish SHUKLA on 2 Jun 2010 12:26
Dmitry Marakasov writes:
> * Ashish SHUKLA (wahjava.ml(a)gmail.com) wrote:

>> > I strictly object to adding hs- prefix to end-user applications like
>> > darcs and xmonad, because it's a huge POLA violation. Users do not care
>> > what the application is written in, they just search for
>> > devel/{svn,mercurial,darcs} and x11-wm/{xmonad,icewm}, and should find
>> > these ports in the expected places. We don't prefix mercurial with
>> > py- and icewm with c-, similarily we shouldn't prefix darcs et al with
>> > hs-. Modules that are used only for development and as dependencies is a
>> > whole different thing, and definitely are what prefixes are for.
>>
>> I agree with you, but by a pre-existing convention (not carved in stone
>> anywhere, AFAIK) in FreeBSD, I prefer keeping ports prefixed with
>> 'hs-'.
>>
>> 1. Padre, which is an editor hacked in Perl is available from a port named
>> 'p5-Padre'.
>>
>> 2. SpamAssassin, an anti-spam filter is available as 'p5-Mail-SpamAssassin'.
>>
>> 3. Pencil which is a mockup based out-of firefox is available as
>> 'www/xpi-pencil', which even doesn't have anything to do with World Wide
>> Web except that it runs in a www browser, still has name/category like
>> that.
>>
>> 4. Conkeror, the web browser is available as 'xpi-conkeror'.

> Those all should probably be fixed.

Fine, I completely agree with you now. So lets file PRs for renaming them.

Thanks
--
Ashish SHUKLA

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From: Jacula Modyun on 3 Jun 2010 13:48
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:16:32PM +0200, Gabor Pali <pgj(a)freebsd.org> wrote:

> Please send "+1" or "-1" depending on whether you support or object this
> change. Thank you!

+1

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