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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2024 13:30:28 +0100
From:      Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Robert Clausecker <fuz@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 6e2da9672f79 - main - filesystems: add new category for file systems and related utilities
Message-ID:  <Zy4EZK8yXktI50Ba@fuz.su>
In-Reply-To: <Zy335uwwJRCrNWh0@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202411061518.4A6FIgF1045221@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <Zy335uwwJRCrNWh0@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi Alexey,

Am Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 11:37:10AM +0000 schrieb Alexey Dokuchaev:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 03:18:42PM +0000, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> > commit 6e2da9672f79f44048d597f0f61e4646cdeade9d
> > 
> >   filesystems: add new category for file systems and related utilities
> > 
> >   The filesystems category houses file systems and file system utilities.
> >   It is added mainly to turn the sysutils/fusefs-* pseudo-category into
> >   a proper one, but is also useful for the sundry of other file systems
> >   related ports found in the tree.
> 
> I'm not quite convinced by this reasoning.  Categories do come and go with
> times when underlying technologies change or die out, but filesystems had
> been in use and known for ages, yet we had never needed a special (scarcely
> populated) category for those things.  But if you've done your research and
> that's the only way, let it be I guess. :-/

We have 140 ports in this newly minted catgory.  That's more ports than
several other categories, so I believe it's a fine category to have.

> > diff --git a/Mk/Scripts/desktop-categories.sh b/Mk/Scripts/desktop-categories.sh
> > index 8daaf2a6d2d7..64478234e70a 100644
> > --- a/Mk/Scripts/desktop-categories.sh
> > +++ b/Mk/Scripts/desktop-categories.sh
> > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ for native_category in ${dp_CATEGORIES}; do
> >  		education)	c="Education"				;;
> >  		emulators)	c="System Emulator"			;;
> >  		finance)	c="Office Finance"			;;
> > +                filesystems)    c="System Filesystem"                   ;;
> >  		ftp)		c="Network FileTransfer"		;;
> >  		games)		c="Game"				;;
> >  		geography)	c="Education Science Geography"		;;
> 
> This is wrong, whitespace-wise (spaces used instead of tabs).

Thanks, that's a copy-paste error from me trying to fix the patch after the
category was renamed from fs to filesystems.

> ./danfe

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

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