ports/66387: Repocopy: suggest moving net/p5-perl-ldap to net/p5-Net-LDAP

[Florent Thoumie]

The following reply was made to PR ports/66387; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/66387: Repocopy: suggest moving net/p5-perl-ldap to net/p5-Net-LDAP
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:01:40 +0200

 Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 
 > NetBSD has it as databases/p5-perl-ldap:
 >  <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/databases/p5-perl-ldap/README.html> 
 > 
 > 
 > OpenBSD uses databases/p5-ldap:
 >  <http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/databases/p5-ldap>
 > 
 > Gentoo has dev-perl/perl-ldap:
 >  <http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=perl-ldap>
 > 
 > I guess people coming from ldap.perl.org will find it quickly, others 
 > searching for
 > Net::LDAP will need a bit more time, and people usings ports won't care 
 > because the
 > dependencies are taken care of for them.
 
 	In fact, I searched for about 30 seconds before finding
 	perl-ldap, that's just "not natural" for me :)
 
 > I might have followed your suggestion if this were a new port, but I 
 > don't believe
 > the given rationale justifies the effort of an repocopy.
 
 	All of this makes sense and I didn't know repocopy was such an
 	effort.
 
 	Thank you for looking at this.