Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:01:21 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full Message-ID: <20041026200121.GS94897@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <200410262153.22929.matt@fruitsalad.org> References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> <639522fe04102612404109e5e7@mail.gmail.com> <20041026194725.GR94897@seekingfire.com> <200410262153.22929.matt@fruitsalad.org>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:53:22PM +0200, Matt Douhan wrote: > On Tue October 26 2004 21.47, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:40:09PM -0600, Jie Gao wrote: > > > I agree this. If we have a powerful search utility instead of the > > > simple "make search", it doesn't matter how large the directories are. > > > > Searching and browsing are not the same task. > > > > /me has an image of window-shopping the ports tree ... > > KDE has a tool called Barry, not sure if it made it into the distribution but > it should be available somewhere. (http://www.student.uni-oldenburg.de/frerich.raabe/barry/, for those who don't want to spend 2 minutes grovelling in Google like I just did) Nice tool. But how does that help with quick window-shopping? Finer-grained directories help. Using a GUI tool to navigate coarse-grained directories instead of `cd` and tab-completion doesn't (especially since I only run X on a single, non-FreeBSD, machine). -T -- "Beauty is not diminished by being shared." -- Robert Heinlein
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