Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:20:01 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-organizing the directory hierarchy? Message-ID: <20110826232001.GA25948@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20110826214427.GA30098@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20110826214427.GA30098@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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I'm going to speak for myself and not portmgr here. My take has always been that looking through the Ports Collection should be done by some high-level search tool (e.g. website). Just looking through the raw portnames, even if they have descriptions, is mind- numbing. I don't believe that we should force users to do a great deal of work on updating their systems to optimize for looking through the hierarchy by command-line tools. They're just the wrong tool for the job, in this case. IMHO. mcl
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