Ethereal not listed

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Thu Oct 5 06:32:17 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 21:25 +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> 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 :-)

Maybe, I don't use 'make search'. Patches welcome, as usual :-)

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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