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Date:      Fri, 29 Dec 2017 04:28:43 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc:        ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 6100 subdirectories in /usr/ports/devel!
Message-ID:  <5A45620B.6080801@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20171228211639.GL99670@rancor.immure.com>
References:  <20171228203634.GK99670@rancor.immure.com> <5A4557E8.70907@grosbein.net> <5A455A04.4090100@grosbein.net> <20171228211639.GL99670@rancor.immure.com>

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29.12.2017 4:16, Bob Willcox wrote:

>> In fact, ports/devel is first but not only category having similar problem with p5-* stuff:
>>
>> $ cd /usr/ports
>> $ find . -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | while read category; do printf "%15s " ${category#./}; ls $category | sed 's/-.*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -1; done | sort -k 2,2 -rn | head -15
>>           devel 1908 p5
>>             www  807 p5
>>        textproc  617 p5
>>             net  327 p5
>>       databases  259 p5
>>        security  258 p5
>>            math  146 p5
>>            mail  145 p5
>>        graphics  100 p5
>>         editors   98 libreoffice
>>        sysutils   75 rubygem
>>      converters   72 p5
>>            misc   63 p5
>>        net-mgmt   56 p5
>>    x11-toolkits   49 p5
>>
> 
> Yeah, I happened to notice the py-* stuff due to some problems I have been
> having with synth. I did notice the large number of p5-* subdirs but didn't
> count them.  :)
> 
> Certainly seems to be out of control...

I like we have all this p5-* stuff in the Ports.
It seems that 1900+ devel/p5-* ports justify new p5-devel or devel-p5 category, though.

But wouldn't such large move become a nightmare for users updating their systems?




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