Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 12:48:26 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why are there 1981 p5-* subdirectories in /usr/ports/devel? Message-ID: <CAP7rwciJikDgx7ULyrUG0GsWB19mqGmh4RkhcwkjfceW1phwNw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200204201813.GD37073@home.opsec.eu> References: <20200204201354.GC39757@rancor.immure.com> <20200204201813.GD37073@home.opsec.eu>
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:18 PM Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I find the number of perl subdirectores in the /usr/ports/devel > > directory pretty annoying to navigate. > > Is there a reason there needs to be 1981 of them? > > There are approx. 1300 python ports in devel and approx. 1100 ruby ports. > > > Couldn't there be a better > > way to organize all of the perl ports so that they don't clutter > > up the devel directory so much? > > Up to now we had no time to implent a different solution. > > It's no easy task, therefore it will take quite some investment > in development time to fix this. At one point, bapt did the legwork to support three-level port directories. Perhaps it's time to implement /usr/ports/devel/p5/. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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