From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 23:20:03 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 BB4CF16A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:20:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED1A43D41 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:20:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeffgaofreebsd@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so242569wri for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:20:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=dLrZWpCj2MZV85j6Z0qZscLEwnSIXJTOpkfwnMmkeQEptrRoEqwofQ3R3hinfUlNIFqtc4IssaQ6HYzB4PcJygXjuvkK1wOx44H87mtBJfuijoKNgUC7h7Eaz6u0DMclPeH14e0RRdgNlINm7wV0VAQ7M+bDuYlVCzF0T5EsJOo= Received: by 10.38.15.14 with SMTP id 14mr799644rno; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.74.3 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <639522fe04102616204f74bf14@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:20:02 -0600 From: Jie Gao To: Tillman Hodgson In-Reply-To: <20041026194725.GR94897@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> <639522fe04102612404109e5e7@mail.gmail.com> <20041026194725.GR94897@seekingfire.com> cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jie Gao List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:20:03 -0000 They are different if we do not have powerful search utilities. But when we have good search tools both searching and browsing will benefit from it. Look at the WWW search engines (google, yahoo, ...). Almost all of them have web site directories, which are for browsing but benefit a lot from the search technologies. If we have good logical categories for the ports, and have good indexing and searching tools, it does not matter where the ports are physically put. And surely a better interface for browsing can be built on top of that. On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:47:25 -0600, 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 ... > > -T > > -- > Real men use "cat /var/spool/mail/$USER | more" and "telnet $SMTP_HOST 25" > - Anonymous Unix geek > "more /var/spool/mail/$USER" <-- don't waste a process, you idiot > - Second anonymous Unix geek > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >