svn commit: r404745 - in head: . editors editors/linux-sublime editors/sublime

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Wed Dec 30 14:46:43 UTC 2015


* Boris Samorodov (bsam at passap.ru) wrote:

> > Log:
> >   - Rename editors/sublime to editors/linux-sublime as it's Linux binary port
> 
> So far we've used the 'linux-' prefix for ports that are:
> . linux infrastructure ports (like x11/linux-xorg)
> . applications that have native FreeBSD counterparts (www/linux-firefox)
>   or may have one in a near future.

Not true. There are a lot of linux- ports which are neither (see
games/ for example). And I strongly believe that linux ports should
be clearly named as such in all cases.

> Other linux applications have been used as is.

This is also impractical, that at any time there may appear a native
FreeBSD counterpart for any linux port, which will require port rename.
This should be avoided.

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