From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 29 09:23:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25813 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25775 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (sji-ca7-55.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.55]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA22754; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id JAA02225; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807291621.JAA02225@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: ady@warpnet.ro CC: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Adrian Penisoara on Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:30:46 +0300 (EEST)) Subject: Re: comment on new categories? From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * OK, I understand we can't do this too soon, but could we please put it on * the TODO list ? Don't forget that the no. of ports will increase with the * time, and this will bloat these top-level categories; breaking them in * sub-categories might be a good choice, don't you think ? Yes of course. It will be done at some point. But as I said, it's much easier to go to three levels all at once, and for that to work, we need a reasonable number of ports in most second levels first. * I think if we change the style for these x-11* categories then we * should/must change the style for the rest of the top-level categories too! * It won't look good to have net/comms/devel/... combined with * "x11-windowmanagers" , "x11-filemanagers", etc. Like the precedent case, * we should change the naming style for all of them and not just some of * them... Hmm. That's an interesting thought. I'm not sure what to rename "comms" and "devel" though. (And "sysutils" and "textproc" will be entirely too long if we rename it.... ;) Maybe we should keep them terse to be consistent with others. How do people look at the categories? sysinstall has COMMENT right next to them so I don't think being terse is a problem there. Maybe we should fix the ports web page to include that too. And I would think the rest of us (developers) will get used to it very quickly. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message