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[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Gabor PALI (pgj at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> > For example, I happen to have checked out working copy of darcs repo for pushover (.sf.net)
> > game. [..] I'd imagine how confused I will be to not find devel/darcs port where it should be
> > along with other VCSs, without any prefixes.
> 
> Whoa, darcs is used for things others than Haskell :)  It is getting
> popular...  Nice!  By the way, why do not you issue a search on
> FreshPorts [1]?

What is a purpose of ports collection, if you need to go to a 3rd-party
website just to find an application you need? Actually, you can just do
make search, but that not the way to go.

> Anyways, users tends to agree with me so far.  (See ports at .)

It'd be interesting to see their arguments. And also to be sure there
are not only people developing in haskell, but also plain users of
those ports.

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