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> Currently we have an uncomfortable mix of classification based on
> "what it is" and "what it is used for".  While the latter seems
> like it would be useful on the surface, it quickly degenerates
> into a useless mess when you try and scale it up, or artificats
> with open-ended uses enter the picture.  It is easy to define
> what Java is (a programming language) but impossible to
> exhaustively define what it is used for.  WWW? Games? GUI
> development? Database?  None of these are wrong, but where do you
> draw the line?  The only sane thing to do from a classification
> standpoint is to fall back to intrinsic qualities of the
> artifiact in question: Java is a programming language.  SAWT is a
> windowing API implementation.  The closest thing we have to that
> is devel. 
> 
> Okay, I'll shut up now.  :)
> 
> -john
> 

Might I suggest that it makes more sense to locate a port according to what
it actually is, and expand the CATEGORIES line to include various possible
additional uses. This seems to be the designed intention.

In this case, devel/sawt with CATEGORIES= devel www

Does this make similar sense to anyone else?

Adam