From the man page:
The mimencode program simply converts a byte stream into (or out of) one of
the standard mail encoding formats defined by MIME, the proposed standard
for internet multimedia mail formats. Such an encoding is necessary
because binary data cannot be sent through the mail. The encodings under-
stood by mimencode are preferable to the use of the uuencode/uudecode pro-
grams, for use in mail, in several respects that were important to the
authors of MIME.
Mmencode is part of metamail, and can be installed as part of that package.
It is provided here as an independent package since some programs require
mmencode only and hence you can avoid having to install the entire metalmail
package when not required.
converters: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
* Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>
* Alex Semenyaka <alex@rinet.ru>
* Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
* Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
* Andrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
* Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
* Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>
* Brent J. Nordquist <bjn@visi.com>
* Carlos J. Puga Medina <cpm@fbsd.es>
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Update CONFLICTS definitions in categories a* to c*
Update the CONFLICTS definitions of ports in the following categories:
- accessibility
- archivers
- audio
- benchmarks
- biology
- cad
- chinese
- comms
- converters
An attempt has been made to use generic conflicts patterns that do not
have to be updated whenever a new version of a conflicting port is
added to the ports system.
There is a misunderstanding that the port being built/installed has to
be omitted from the conflicts pattern. This is not true - the port
being built is implicitly non-conflicting due to logic in bsd.port.mk.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
For ports maintained by ports@FreeBSD.org, remove names and/or
e-mail addresses from the pkg-descr file that could reasonably
be mistaken for maintainer contact information in order to avoid
confusion on the part of users looking for support. As a pleasant
side effect this also avoids confusion and/or frustration for people
who are no longer maintaining those ports.
ports with possibly unreachable MAINTAINERs
*** addresses that may be dead, even though the error is temporary:
*** addresses that seem to be dead, but give a hint to a new address:
PR: ports/58694
Submitted by: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
