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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:15:04 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big?
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****   TAKE THIS TO PORTS@FREEBSD.ORG  *****

This is NOT a -current issue!!  And the people that can actually effect
change hang out on ports@freebsd.org, not necessarly on
current@freebsd.org


On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 12:19:01PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> This is the direction that my thinking is headed. Let the actual developers
> keep things (pretty much) as is. Repackage the distribution into a multi-level
> hierarchy.

*IF* people were to take this to ports@freebsd.org, they would have
learned there was a discussion about a month ago in which the conclusion
was to use one dir per port, but remove the subdirs w/in each ports
subdir.

Thus rather than
    foo/Makefile
    foo/files/md5
    foo/pkg/PLIST
    foo/pkg/DESCR
    foo/pkg/COMMENT
    foo/patch/patch-aa
    foo/patch/patch-ab

we would have
    foo/Makefile
    foo/md5
    foo/pkg_PLIST
    foo/pkg_DESCR
    foo/pkg_COMMENT
    foo/patch-aa
    foo/patch-ab


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