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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:27:52 +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.3.96.980729192632.8461A-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
In-Reply-To: <199807291621.JAA02225@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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Hi,

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  *  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...
> 
> Hmm.  That's an interesting thought.  I'm not sure what to rename
> "comms" and "devel" though.  (And "sysutils" and "textproc" will be
> entirely too long if we rename it.... ;)

 Exactly my thoughts too...

> 
> Maybe we should keep them terse to be consistent with others.  How do
> people look at the categories?  sysinstall has COMMENT right next to
> them so I don't think being terse is a problem there.  Maybe we should
> fix the ports web page to include that too.  And I would think the
> rest of us (developers) will get used to it very quickly.

 I agree.

> 
> Satoshi
> 

 Thanks,
 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)


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