From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 16:26:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F21106564A for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1FF8FC12 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CE07419B7; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :content-type:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject :from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t= 1300984011; x=1302798411; bh=oRd3rSReybJYyiB8jjMwgKq73hOCNzzbviC umD7vw9E=; b=HI7L94KZeYYbxdnr4s74uJNX/aWDf+WfqEbX8jNNWuU6nxJz//d /r1/3LK2oV6hsQMkCwMjZ3Tfm9Sa0azpLP6/18JPa2enbsfqoxWi43BqHVUbZYDn 8hoMZBRlS3piFCauSoYI9qWDY0528gOC+N37KTid66/i3eh8ocrBFrkw= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6D5WKoSvcvVp; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 110FB7419AE; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 41307 invoked by uid 1001); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:23:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:23:22 -0700 From: Jason Helfman To: Eitan Adler Message-ID: <20110324162321.GG51385@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <4D8A2A79.4010908@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Peter Jeffery Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:26:52 -0000 On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:38:48AM -0500, Eitan Adler thus spake: >> you can then build category based directories with symlinks to the main >> location based on what categories > >My ports-mgmt/symports does something like this. It builds a full >directory tree of symlinks for the "secondary" categories. > >> I'm sure that something like this has been mentioned before. But I don't see >> what else is going to stop >> the categorization issue popping up all of the time. > >If we alphabetized the ports then there would be constant conversation >about how whether or not we should categorize them. > >-- >Eitan Adler When this change goes in, it may be a good idea to commit a documentation change, as well, that cleans up and adds the new categories here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5