Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 13:05:54 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme Message-ID: <199807030335.NAA01847@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:10:23 CST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702095334.29419A-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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> > maybe we might consider having more than one directory level? like > > net/irc/bitchx, net/ftp/ncftp3, etc ... ? > Sounds good, except that many ports would be their entire "Application > Type" group. I like the idea though; add more sorting heuristics, based 3 > layers deep: Hmm.. if they're all ogoing to be tar.gz's anyway, my not put them in a signle directory and use a simple DB to keep track of them. That way you can have one port in multiple categories.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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