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To: Kurt Jaeger Cc: Bob Willcox , ports list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48CXDr04M9z43XK X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=adamw-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.s=20150623 header.b=SzYQWoZk; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of adamw@adamw.org designates 2a00:1450:4864:20::342 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=adamw@adamw.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.83 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[adamw-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com:s=20150623]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36:c]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ports@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[adamw.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[adamw-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2.4.3.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.0.0.4.6.8.4.0.5.4.1.0.0.a.2.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; IP_SCORE(-0.33)[ip: (2.64), ipnet: 2a00:1450::/32(-2.49), asn: 15169(-1.74), country: US(-0.05)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:48:45 -0000 On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:18 PM Kurt Jaeger 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