From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 10:20:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BAF16A421; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:20:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1461E13C48D; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:20:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6LAK1sU022483; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:20:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk from=m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk; sender-id=permerror; spf=permerror X-SenderID: Sendmail Sender-ID Filter v0.2.14 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk l6LAK1sU022483 Message-ID: <46A1DDD1.6000900@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:20:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070619) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <46A05B21.90603@u.washington.edu> <46A0711F.2020200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <46A1068A.3010004@FreeBSD.org> <46A1C2C9.80704@infracaninophile.co.uk> <46A1C9C0.5080205@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46A1C9C0.5080205@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:20:13 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3713/Sat Jul 21 02:18:46 2007 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_POLICY_SIGNSOME, DKIM_POLICY_TESTING, NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:20:19 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Doug Barton wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Again, the idea here was not to change anything in the ports >> themselves: just what was presented in the INDEX, > > Ok, then I think it's incumbent on you to explain what the benefit > would be. * Reduce the size of the INDEX * Make the index data directly answer the sort of questions most likely to come up in general use. The latter is, of course, subjective but I think knowing the answers to both 'what do I need to run this software?' and 'what else do I need to install this software?' is more useful than what we have at the moment. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGod3R8Mjk52CukIwRCKJCAJ0VBzcFxnNK+6aMDCklvwvYvm/YbACePNat QAoADDuGBD2bouGCalW8thw= =JOPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----