On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:23:22AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:38:48AM -0500, Eitan Adler thus spake: > >>you can then build category based directories with symlinks to the main > >>location based on what categories > > > >My ports-mgmt/symports does something like this. It builds a full > >directory tree of symlinks for the "secondary" categories. > > > >>I'm sure that something like this has been mentioned before. But I don't > >>see > >>what else is going to stop > >>the categorization issue popping up all of the time. > > > >If we alphabetized the ports then there would be constant conversation > >about how whether or not we should categorize them. > > > >-- > >Eitan Adler > > When this change goes in, it may be a good idea to commit a documentation > change, as well, that cleans up and adds the new categories here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html
I'm against this change. I've never had any problems with the way ports are categorised. Also, refuse file is arranged in categories, so I can, and often do, remove the whole categories of ports from my /usr/ports, e.g. languages which I don't speak, or java, or whatever. Spending time and energy on rearranging everything in alphabetic order is a waste of time and will not help me a bit. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
