On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:18 PM Kurt Jaeger <p...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > I find the number of perl subdirectores in the /usr/ports/devel
> > directory pretty annoying to navigate.
> > Is there a reason there needs to be 1981 of them?
>
> There are approx. 1300 python ports in devel and approx. 1100 ruby ports.
>
> > Couldn't there be a better
> > way to organize all of the perl ports so that they don't clutter
> > up the devel directory so much?
>
> Up to now we had no time to implent a different solution.
>
> It's no easy task, therefore it will take quite some investment
> in development time to fix this.

At one point, bapt did the legwork to support three-level port
directories. Perhaps it's time to implement /usr/ports/devel/p5/.

# Adam


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Adam Weinberger
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