Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:58:32 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full Message-ID: <20041023015832.GA1115@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <447jpiqzyx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <16761.12913.961269.232207@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410221128530.16582-100000@pancho> <16761.17813.713808.55826@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <447jpiqzyx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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in message <447jpiqzyx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>, wrote Lowell Gilbert thusly... > > > Mark Linimon writes: > > > I often want to look at all programs which do <foo>, where FOO is > > far more detailed than the existing categories support. > > That's a hard problem, because it can get into semantics. I don't > really see any new approaches to the problem that will do better > than "make search key=" There is a Perl module in the ports tree named FreeBSD::Ports with which a port can be identified by contents of comment, if not by pkg-desrc, besides other things. Ah, here it is (output is from my own index search tool, parse-index; perl 5.8.5 has been installed here)... name: p5-FreeBSD-Ports-0.04 origin: /usr/ports/textproc/p5-FreeBSD-Ports install-prefix: /usr/local comment: Perl modules for parsing FreeBSD's Ports INDEX file description: /usr/ports/textproc/p5-FreeBSD-Ports/package-descr maintainer: tom@FreeBSD.org category: textproc category: perl5 build-dep: perl-5.8.5 run-dep: perl-5.8.5 uri: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tom/portpm/ extract-dep: perl-5.8.5 patch-dep: perl-5.8.5 - Parv --
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