On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 06:09:12PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > Do we tell them to peak into FreeBSD ports anywhere?
> Unless that's been removed from the ports FAQ or general advice recently, > yes. There's no reference to NetBSD or FreeBSD in the ports FAQ. While I have known folks to be told to look at how FreeBSD ported something for complicated software, it's not to use their _port_, it's to see what they needed to adapt it to a BSD. Advice about things like EXTRACT_CASES that has been obsolete for more than _20_ years. (introduced by commit 1.12 to bsd.port.mk http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5.diff?r1=1.11&r2=1.12&f=h) > It is a good idea to see what other BSDs did, since we're still closer > to them than anything linux. Well, if we've got ancient, out of date information in our man pages, we may be more like Linux than I would like. --Kurt
