From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 19 1:51:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0E714CB3 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:51:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22589; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:51:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <376B5A0C.36060A34@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:51:24 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Haro Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team Subject: Re: Are files, pkg _and_ scripts needed? References: <19990609123657.A15739@area51.fremont.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Haro wrote: > > Hi, is there any reason to have a files, pkg and scripts directory? > It seems to me that pkg and scripts could be merged into the files > directory. Wouldn't this make the ports install much faster? A good > chunk of the ports have only 1 file, md5, in the files directory right > now and 3 files in pkg. This change would involve lots of repository > copying and testing, but it is probably worth it. Personally I agree. Less directories == less inodes, which is a good thing. I can justify having patches in their own directory, but I don't see any reason not to combine all the other files into one directory. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey (Texas), who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message