Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:30:46 +0300 (EEST) From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment on new categories? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980729092201.4474A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> In-Reply-To: <199807281607.JAA23186@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Hi, On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Going to an unbalanced tree will make maintaining ports much harder. > If we are going to 3 levels, we should do it all at once. There are > 35 categories now, ranging from humongous (japanese: 163, games: 159, > x11: 138) to tiny (german: 5, biology: 6). > > But nobody is complaining about "japanese" or "games". The problem > with "x11" is that it's abused by ports that really don't belong here. But still, they should have sub-categories themselves, like the main /usr/ports, right ? OK, I understand we can't do this too soon, but could we please put it on the TODO list ? Don't forget that the no. of ports will increase with the time, and this will bloat these top-level categories; breaking them in sub-categories might be a good choice, don't you think ? > > The only reason why I'm terse is because "x11-windowmanagers" or > "filemanagers" will change the output of "ls /usr/ports" on a > 80-character xterm from 3 columns to 5 columns. Going up and down the > tree, that's fairly significant. > > But may be right, maybe we shouldn't be too terse for the sake of > developers. What do others think? I think if we change the style for these x-11* categories then we should/must change the style for the rest of the top-level categories too! It won't look good to have net/comms/devel/... combined with "x11-windowmanagers" , "x11-filemanagers", etc. Like the precedent case, we should change the naming style for all of them and not just some of them... > > Satoshi PS: Could someone (Asami ?) have a look at PR #7373 and commit ? thanks... Just my $0.02 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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