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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: "Vlad K." <vlad-fbsd@acheronmedia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ports' tips and gotchas
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 06:16:26PM +0100, Vlad K. wrote:
> However, what would be the best way to approach this via the FreeBSD wiki?
> I'm sure that random wiki pages in various users' namespaces is not quite
> the right thing to do. There currently are some ports Wiki pages but they're
> all over the place and not nicely organized.

For right now I think your pages are fine.

The wiki doesn't have much of a "structure" right now.  I did some prototype
pages for a restructuring but it got bogged down due to internal politics.

It needs several months' worth of surgery.  I nibble at parts of it every
once in a while until I remember why I got frustrated :-)

mcl