From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 06:06:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org 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 109BF16A408; Tue, 16 May 2006 06:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from jengal.datamax.bg (jengal.datamax.bg [82.103.104.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744C143D45; Tue, 16 May 2006 06:06:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from qlovarnika.bg.datamax (qlovarnika.bg.datamax [192.168.10.2]) by jengal.datamax.bg (Postfix) with SMTP id C1A1EB859; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:06:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: (nullmailer pid 54105 invoked by uid 1002); Tue, 16 May 2006 06:06:51 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:06:51 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20060516060651.GA52578@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <20060515222815.GA2535@picobyte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060515222815.GA2535@picobyte.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Shaun Amott , Pav Lucistnik Subject: Re: New category - ports/packages specific tools? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vd@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 06:07:06 -0000 --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:28:16PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote: > There are lots of nifty tools in ports for handling ports and packages. > It would be nice if they were all in one, easy to find place. >=20 > I think there are enough of these kind of ports to warrant a new > category. What does everyone think about this? >=20 > I'm not sure on a name yet -- "freebsd", "ports", "tools", and > "portutils" are my initial ideas. >=20 I like the idea for such a category. IMHO the power of a lot of ports-tree management tools is unused and lost just because they are unknown to the users. Having such a category one can easily answer the question "How can I tweak my ports tree, and use its full potential?" by just looking the ports inside that category. What about "ports-mgmt"? P.S. Pav: from the 61 currently existing categories 26 (43%) have less than 100 ports and 9 (15%) are smaller than the suggested one. --=20 Vasil Dimov gro.DSBeerF@dv Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFEaWv7Fw6SP/bBpCARArrUAKDZ/U/2c05Rg/U31NB7DgpcF8rZEACgw+CJ JGc0zuOWQXUyo2+Es8f6RIc= =fb1G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--