Re: Valgrind for FreeBSD

From: David O'Brien (obrien_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 04/25/04

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To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>

    On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:22:11PM -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
    > Doug Rabson wrote:
    > > > Please rename "valgrind-devel-port" to "valgrind-snapshot-port".
    > >
    > > I think I suggested the name valgrind-devel but I have no idea what the
    > > latest port naming conventions are. If valgrind-snapshot is more
    > > consistent, then thats the name it should have.
    >
    > Searching though the ports tree, I don't see any ports called
    > -snapshot. Some snapshot ports have a date stamp (eg,
    > gcc-3.3.4_20040322). There are dozens of -devel ports which are
    > unstable development versions of the regular ports (mutt-devel,
    > rxvt-devel, postgresql-devel, etc).

    We've had them in the past.
     
    > Many linux distributions use a -devel package for header files, which
    > they separate out from the main library package. Let's not go there.

    Yes, and FreeBSD has too.[*] This situaion is why "-devel" is a
    piss-poor name for these type of ports. "-snapshot" or "-indevel" are
    properly descriptive. 

    -- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
[*] And I would like to see a lot more of these, as I generally use
Kris's packages vs. building from ports and I end up with a lot more crap
on my system than I need.
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