Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:33:29 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports Message-ID: <20051018003329.GG71766@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <20051017222145.GA2840@sysmon.tcworks.net> References: <E14F38B2-B1AF-415F-AE6B-A4BE6330A83D@opensail.org> <20051015053003.GB28137@soaustin.net> <4350CE50.8080704@ebs.gr> <5739E97B-7EDC-4971-9EA5-01A44688A981@softweyr.com> <43522953.6050700@ebs.gr> <1B8112AF-8C0E-4BA0-8D1C-DA6AD529F327@softweyr.com> <20051017153024.GA23494@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20051017212748.GD71766@isis.sigpipe.cz> <790a9fff0510171505i4010cc05yc30f67d459d1a0e4@mail.gmail.com> <20051017222145.GA2840@sysmon.tcworks.net>
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# lambert@lambertfam.org / 2005-10-17 17:21:45 -0500:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:05:18PM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > The following could be added to bsd.port.mk
> >
> > virtualport:
> > .for CATEGORY in ${CATEGORIES}
> > .if not exist ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}
> > mkdir ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}
> > .endif
> > .if not exist ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PORTNAME}
> > ln -s ${.CURDIR} ${PORTSDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PORTNAME}
> > .endif
> > .endfor
> >
> > which would add the link for a specific port. The we would need to
> > add a virtualports target (bsd.subdir.mk?) that would decend thru all
> > the ports creating all the symbolic links (similar to the "make
> > readmes" target used in /usr/ports/ ).
>
> The inodes, man! The inodes!!!!
Inodes are cheap compared to the time I spend typing (and fixing
typos in) something like
make search name=\^p5- disp=path cat=www | sed '/^$/d'
compared to
ls -d /u<tab>po<tab>/w<tab>/p5-*
Screw inodes, ls is too nice for the basic stuff.
We could stop using the ugly portname prefixes like p5-, pear-
(they just duplicate information contained in CATEGORIES IMO).
Today, you can usually list all ports in such a virtual category
by doing e. g. ls /usr/ports/*/p5-*, with virtual categories on disk
you could also ls /usr/ports/p5. And, since you'll probably be in
/usr/ports already, the final command is comfortably short (how
about ls ecl<tab>?).
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