From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 23 14:32:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D1437B42C for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13cwu7-000BkU-00; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:32:15 +0200 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:32:15 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports tree idea: Combine DESCR and COMMENT Message-ID: <20000923233215.A45139@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <39CD200B.A10214EA@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39CD200B.A10214EA@glue.umd.edu>; from bfoz@glue.umd.edu on Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 05:26:35PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 2000-09-23 (17:26), Brandon Fosdick wrote: > I haven't read all of the discussion regarding the ports tree remake, so this > could be totally useless. My intent is for this to be a short term, easy to > implement, band-aid(TM). > > Since people complain about the number of inodes that the ports tree > uses I was thinking that maybe the pkg/DESCR and pkg/COMMENT files > could be combined. Since the COMMENT file is usually only one line it > seems that that one line could easily be made the very first line of > DESCR. > > Now obviously this only saves one inode per port, but when you have over 3000 > ports it starts to add up. Is this something that could be done while we're > waiting for the new reincarnation of the ports tree? It's not really the files that kill us, but the directories. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message