need porting advice: one tool from a larger package

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 17 09:49:50 UTC 2012


There is a package of a variety of tools, i2c-tools
(http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/I2CTools).
I want to port to FreeBSD only a single tool from that package, decode-dimms.
How should I name my port, "i2c-tools" or "decode-dimms"?
In my opinion, "decode-dimms" has an advantage of being honest and
straightforward, but "i2c-tools" has an advantage of preserving the original
upstream package name.  In the future someone might want to port another tool
from that package and instead of having to create a new port they could just add
necessary patches and modify the install target and the plist.

Thank you.
-- 
Andriy Gapon


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