Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:03:22 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Kurt Bigler <kkb@breathhost.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: website suggestions re ports and packages Message-ID: <20030225130322.GB586@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <BA8023D0.714E%kkb@breathhost.net> References: <FF74D248-481B-11D7-B2B0-000393460DB2@FreeBSD.org> <BA8023D0.714E%kkb@breathhost.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:32:32PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > Thanks. I eventually found that page again. > > For the website maintainers, I have some updated observations from my > browsing experience. > > When I first went browsing, I immediately saw the "Run a huge number of > applications" title. The text there contained an applications link, which > took me to: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/applications.html > > Fairly prominent on that pages is a paragraph with two embedded links > packages collection > and > ports collection > > I clicked on packages collection which is what I was most interested in. > This took me to http://www.FreeBSD.org/where.html, a page with two sections > entitled > > The Packages collection > > and > > The Ports collection > > and the information there makes it sound as if the two collections are > mutually exclusive. But the information there was also incomplete based on > my memory of having once read a more verbose description comparing and > contrasing packages and ports, which led me to writing my previous email. > > I certainly never expected to find more information about BOTH packages and > ports by going back to the home page and clicking on the Ported Applications > link, although I eventually did this by mistake, and it turns out that that > page > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/index.html > > contains more information about both ports and packages, and also described > that packages are kind of special case of ports. And this was the page I > had been looking for, well-hidden right out in the open given that I was > more interested in packages and so keep steering away from "ports". > > Curiously there is no link to this very helpful page under "The Ports > collection" heading on the where.html page. > > I think you can see how an attempt to find information can be thwarted by > the current structure. Basically instead of having little tutorial-like > sections scattered around in a fairly unstructured and semi-redundant way, > it would be good if the actual structure of the information were made more > explicit. For example instead of having two pages that introduce both > packages and ports with related kinds of description but containing > different information (and in fact conflicting points of view), it would be > better to have one single place that introduces both packages and ports. > This page should ideally be hard to avoid in any browsing for information on > either topic. > > Please let me know if further clarification would be helpful. (Again, > please email directly since I am not currently a list member.) > > Thanks, > Kurt Bigler > I just looked over where.html and there a a couple of dead links anyway. I'll have a look at it and add some pointers to the pages that actually describe ports/packages. Thanks for the hints. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+W2mabHYXjKDtmC0RArgjAJwM0Sd2is+/Uh/C6qF8Ghm+fh2lFwCcDgvH mkuL4NZIHlcy4UcNGvnNNBk= =/OPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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