Ethereal not listed

LI Xin delphij at delphij.net
Thu Oct 5 06:26:23 PDT 2006


Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:33 +0200, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:21:43PM -0500, Carlos Ramirez wrote:
>>> Hi.-
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Why Ethereal is not in the ports list?
>>>
>> Ethereal is now Wireshark, project's name changed a few months ago.
>>
>> But perhaps maintaining a dummy ethereal port some more time would be
>> a good idea ?
> 
> Not really. We already have 15k+ ports. We don't want to keep dummy
> ports for every port moved, that's what ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED is for.

I think teaching ${PORTSDIR}/Makefile about how to do 'make search=' on
MOVED as well might be good idea, though :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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