cvs commit: ports/archivers Makefile ports/archivers/deb2targz
Makefile distinfo pkg-descr
Marcus Alves Grando
mnag at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 28 11:59:22 PDT 2005
Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:37:35PM +0000, Marcus Alves Grando wrote:
>
>>mnag 2005-09-28 16:37:35 UTC
>>
>> FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>> Modified files:
>> archivers Makefile
>> Added files:
>> archivers/deb2targz Makefile distinfo pkg-descr
>> Log:
>> New port
>>
>> deb2targz is a very small perl script for converting Debian Linux .deb packages
>> to a .tar.gz. deb2targz does not need any external programs like 'ar' or 'tar'.
>
>
> I really think that it's about time for us to augment the meaning of
> "converters" category (right now it only says about character code
> conversions). There lots of software in ports already that are best
> described by being a _converter_, and IMHO lots of our users would start
> looking for one exactly in this category, and would probably get frustrated
> to find out it's not there.
I think converters are only to character converters and i think that
users use "make search", because it's more easy.
Regards
--
Marcus Alves Grando
Grupos Internet S/A
marcus(at)corp.grupos.com.br
mnag(at)FreeBSD.org
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