From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 03:05:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AD837B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 03:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop3.mail-relay.com (mail.mail-relay.com [194.49.77.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B2F43FBD for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 03:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ob@breuninger.org) Received: from pop3.mail-relay.com (localhost.partner.de [127.0.0.1]) by pop3.mail-relay.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h46A5F8j044951; Tue, 6 May 2003 12:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from breuninger.org (root@localhost)h46A5Ete044950; Tue, 6 May 2003 12:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Sender: root@pop3.mail-relay.com Message-ID: <3EB788CF.FEAEB664@breuninger.org> Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:05:04 +0200 From: Oliver Breuninger X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: ports structure X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ob@breuninger.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 10:05:16 -0000 Hi there, with an amount of 8.500 ports and 60 categories, it should be better to use a tree orientation then a flat structure. e.g. applications astro biology cad math sience country/national chinese french german hebrew japanese korean russian ukrainian vietnamese development devel gawk gmake lang basic c cobol cpp forth fortran java lisp logo modula oberon ocam pascal perl php python ruby tcl tk multimedia audio deskutils games graphics video x11 x11-clocks x11-fm x11-fonts x11-servers x11-toolkits x11-wm network ftp irc mail mbone net news www system archivers benchmarks comms converters databases editors emulators misc palm picobsd print security shells sysutils textproc regards -- Oliver Breuninger X.509v3 CA Distribution Point http://ca.breuninger.org