From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 2 08:22:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08355 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from joshua.enteract.com (joshua.enteract.com [207.229.129.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA08350 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djhoward@joshua.enteract.com) Received: (qmail 3341 invoked by uid 1032); 2 Jul 1998 15:22:03 -0000 Message-ID: <19980702102203.B1763@enteract.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:22:03 -0500 From: dannyman Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Atipa on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:29:25PM -0600 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ermm ... if we're going to muck with the ports directory structure anyway, maybe we might consider having more than one directory level? like net/irc/bitchx, net/ftp/ncftp3, etc ... ? As an example of how ugly things get when you have a limited directory structure, check out the several gigabytes on Aminet organized two trees deep ... :/ -- // dannyman yori aiokomete || Our Honored Symbol deserves \\/ http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ || an Honorable Retirement (UIUC) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message