Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:10:04 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: restructuring Porter's Handbook Message-ID: <20050819221004.GB9378@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <1124485166.43744.36.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> References: <1124485166.43744.36.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
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FWIW, some of this I've already brainstormed with Pav off-list, so don't be too surprised that I like most of these ideas -- I had always felt the PH really needed some attention like this. On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:59:26PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Here's the list of proposed changes: > > - replace 13.5 with a Advanced pkg-plist methods section > - move existing 13.5 Changing plist based on make variables under new > 13.5 section > - move 17.11 Cleaning up empty directories under new 13.5 section > - move 17.16 Configuration files under new 13.5 section > - move 19 Automated package list creation under new 13.5 section I'm in favor of all of these. > Maybe dedicate a whole top level category to pkg-plist? Say, after > Special considerations? I'm neutral on this. > - move 10 Ports that require Motif under 6 Special considerations > - move 7 MASTERDIR under 5 Configuring the Makefile I'm in favor of these. > - move 11 X11 fonts under 6, or even combine with 6.4 Using X11 I'd say the latter. > - combine 8 Shared libraries with 6.1 Shared Libraries ? > - drop 17.23 completely I'm in favor of these too. I have some other ideas about regrouping but IMHO we should do these first on the theory that it will be much better than what we have. mcl
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