Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:07:26 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment on new categories? Message-ID: <199807281607.JAA23186@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980727214155.17510A-100000@sag.lmsal.com> (message from Brian Handy on Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:44:11 -0700 (PDT))
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I'm going to reply to all mails at once to cut down the number of messages. * From: Brian Handy <handy@sag.lmsal.com> * I like the idea, the x11 directory is pretty bloated. So things like * "xcolors", "xlockmore" and friends just stay in x11? I guess so. Unless you can come up with another category to scoop them up. :) * From: Brian Handy <handy@sag.lmsal.com> * The only thing that bothers me about this is I sorta like seeing things of * one "group" together -- kde-* is one example. (I'd also like to see all * the p5-[bleah] ports in one directory too, but ... you can't have it all.) * But I'm not sure how I'd solve that one. Well, we can do that, but I'm not sure if that's a real good idea. For kde-*, you can already install everything by using the "kde" meta-port or -package, and you can find packages under the "kde" virtual category anyway. For p5-* stuff...well, no comment on that. ;) * From: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> * I like the ideea ! I always hated to search through all the x11 category * to find some window managers... * * BTW, is it possible to make them subdirectories of x11 (I bet we can't, * but hey, why not mention it while we're still at it) ? Going to an unbalanced tree will make maintaining ports much harder. If we are going to 3 levels, we should do it all at once. There are 35 categories now, ranging from humongous (japanese: 163, games: 159, x11: 138) to tiny (german: 5, biology: 6). === ## for i in */Makefile; do printf "%-20s: " $i; grep 'SUBDIR' $i | wc -l; done | sed -e 's./Makefile..' | sort -r -n +2 japanese : 163 games : 159 x11 : 138 net : 133 devel : 117 graphics : 95 misc : 79 lang : 71 www : 68 mail : 61 print : 51 sysutils : 42 math : 39 audio : 39 editors : 37 textproc : 33 emulators : 33 security : 32 korean : 31 news : 28 chinese : 26 databases : 20 archivers : 18 comms : 17 converters : 13 cad : 11 mbone : 10 astro : 10 benchmarks : 9 russian : 8 vietnamese : 7 shells : 7 plan9 : 7 biology : 6 german : 5 === But nobody is complaining about "japanese" or "games". The problem with "x11" is that it's abused by ports that really don't belong here. * From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> * Do we need to be so terse? `x11-windowmanagers' would be fine with * me. `filemanagers' could be a broader category including some of the * filemanglers from misc (ytree, mc, ...). The only reason why I'm terse is because "x11-windowmanagers" or "filemanagers" will change the output of "ls /usr/ports" on a 80-character xterm from 3 columns to 5 columns. Going up and down the tree, that's fairly significant. But may be right, maybe we shouldn't be too terse for the sake of developers. What do others think? * While we're at it, how about a new category `office' (I think this has * been proposed before)? This could remove some clutter from `misc', * like korganizer, kproject, plan, teapot, xcalendar, xmaddressbook, * xopps and probably others. I thought those can go to "deskutils" too. I didn't like the name "office" because it conjures up images of an (in)famous product by a competing company (:) that includes stuff like word processors, spreadsheets and presentation tools, which we don't want to include in this category. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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