From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 16:12:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0FD16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBB143FE9 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from lonesome.com (cs242719-195.austin.rr.com [24.27.19.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4249914694; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:12:41 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3FCBD905.9080100@lonesome.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:12:53 -0600 From: Mark Linimon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030713 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Pelleg References: <20031126232537.24176.qmail@web13704.mail.yahoo.com> <20031126234313.GZ90881@submonkey.net> <3FC53E21.9020709@potentialtech.com> <3FCBADA3.8070909@potentialtech.com> <16331.52805.200628.376535@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <16331.52805.200628.376535@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: meta-ports (was: FreeBSD for Linux users) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:12:47 -0000 > > >I don't know if there's a meta-port that includes them all or not, but it >probably wouldn't hurt to have one. > I keep thinking about advocating more meta-ports, and possibly even proposing a virtual category named "meta" (or some such) to group them in. Having such a virtual category would, IMHO, help any new FreeBSD user, not just ones coming over from a Linux distro. For example, I can easily imagine a new user wandering around, lost, in the many x11/* ports, and wondering where in the heck you're supposed to start. For example, one could argue that the the following could be included in such a category: textproc/docboook texptroc/docproj x11/XFree86-4 x11/gnome2 x11/gnome2-fifth-toe x11/kde There are others that could easily be included in this list, but I've picked the ones that IMHO represent the clearest argument for creating such a thing. >Speaking of which, instant-workstation >is seemingly another thing that would make linux users from most distros >feel at home, albeit a bloated and crowded home. > Well, instant-workstation could probably use some updating; I don't know if grog has really looked at it for a while. If there were the kind of virtual category discussed above, it might encourage more people to take a look at instant-workstation, and possibly creating metaports for their own favorite sets. (Mine would be 'port maintainance tools' including portupgrade and friends). mcl