"Featured ports of the month"

[Cyrille Lefevre]

"Peter Ulrich Kruppa" <root at pukruppa.de> wrote:


> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 May 2004 05:28:10 -0700
> > Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Here's an idea I just had (while pondering whether the x2x port is the
> > > most useful X tool ever):
> > >
> > > The ports collection is so large thesedays that it can be hard to find
> > > something unless you already have some idea about what you're looking
> > > for.  However those of us who have been using FreeBSD for a while tend
> > > to have picked up a collection of ports that are now essential for our
> > > day-to-day FreeBSD use.
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > I would try to take the job if no one more
> > knowledgeable from doc@ or here is interested.
> I guess this is the best news!
> 
> Besides a short description of the port, you should also ask for
> support and documentation. These are important critereria for the
> usability of a port.


and even sample files which aren't always provided :(
so, you have to get them from the archive yourself and/or
submit a PR to update the ports w/o existing example/contrib
files... not good!

Cyrille Lefevre.
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