ports/89347: [MAINTAINER UPDATE] net-mgmt/ipcad: New release
Xin LI
delphij at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 07:37:55 GMT 2005
(Moved to freebsd-ports@ to reduce GNATS spamming :-)
On 11/21/05, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Xin LI wrote:
> > Port: freebsd-sha256-20050310
> > Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-sha256
> > Info: FreeBSD sha256 utility
> > Maint: cperciva at daemonology.net
> > B-deps:
> > R-deps:
> > WWW:
> >
> > This looks a little strange. Colin, why this is in the sysutils category?
>
> Because /sbin/sha256 is a system utility? I listed both "sysutils" and
> "security" in the CATEGORIES variable, but there wasn't any strong reason
> to put it into one directory rather than the other.
Personally I think it would be better to assign freebsd-sha256's
primary category into security. It is much more security related
rather than being a more "generic" system utility. This is requested
by porters' handbook, section 5.3.3.
Cheers,
--
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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