From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 21:20:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9478016A422; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:20:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A3543D53; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:20:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291F0C372; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24224-08; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEEBBF55; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75FFE3D3B; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Anton Berezin Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43737332.2301.3E0F42A@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20051107154634.GA40923@heechee.tobez.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for comments: port-tags X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:20:15 -0000 On 9 Nov 2005 at 16:53, Haroon Khalid wrote: > If you have any comments and suggestions with regard to port-tags, I > would like to hear about it. Is it useful? How can we make it more > useful? What are the shortcomings? Any show-stoppers which prevent you > from using it? Anton and I have discussed this off line and he's added some examples on how to use port tags. In short, as I understand them, the feature is an iterative key word search. You start with a list of ports and all the keywords (tags) for those ports. You pick a keyword, and the list of ports reduces to ports with just that keyword. Then you repeat the process with an ever- decreasing number of ports and keywords, until you have a list of ports that is reasonble to read through. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/