From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 17:44:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EBB16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:44:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CABD43D45 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A12551281; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:48:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:48:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Marco van de Voort Message-ID: <20041123174836.GB80041@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20041119215216.GA29628@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041123105215.6FD6C1CCB5@turtle.stack.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041123105215.6FD6C1CCB5@turtle.stack.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5 -* ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:44:30 -0000 --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:52:15AM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:58:28AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > Just throwing this out for input: > > >=20 > > > Would it be useful to make a /usr/ports/perl directory and then put= =20 > > > all of the p5-* ports into it for easy browsing? > >=20 > > Not really - it's more useful to know that they're modules for > > networking, or for security, etc. than it is to know that they're perl > > modules (that's obvious from the name). If you really want an > > enormous list of all perl5 modules in the ports tree, you can browse > > the perl5 virtual category using www.freebsd.org/ports. >=20 > I'd say that the advantage is more that they'd disappear from the common > categories, then that one could browse them easier ;-) >=20 > Half an year back there was some talk about a deeper nested hierarchy, is > something like that still planned? >=20 > (e.g. building a hierachy lang/perl/network etc etc) It remains on the wish list, but no-one's actively working on it, afaik. Kris --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBo3fzWry0BWjoQKURAgegAKChk+D9EswflS+/ATDkA+mdPDBvWQCgypDB G8b8zvJ9/7s19sNa+uNMpm8= =LhIF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes--