Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:05:50 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 191873] Network ports in category "multimedia" Message-ID: <bug-191873-13-vCplgleosY@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-191873-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-191873-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191873 --- Comment #10 from Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> --- Hi, that's not an easy answer... Serviio is in net category (as it is a server), has secondary categories multimedia (DLNA), java (is written in java, not 100% sure if this suites a membership there), www (it offers a web interface to the library in case you buy a license). Serviio is able to show content from the internet (via plugins, not sure if you can call it a content-proxy because of this) and to transcode content on the fly. I took this port over, so I didn't put it in those categories in the first place. I agree that a lot of programs which are not in the net category provide some kind of network capabilities and as such the feature of listening on network ports doesn't mean it has to be in the net category in the first place. Like www for webservers, multimedia for DLNA servers looks suitable too. On the other hand I consider net to be server software for which we don't have a special category like www. For me multimedia is a category where I search video manipulating software (encoders, transcoders, multimdeia-container-multiplexers, ...). So while I understand how people could search serviio in multimedia, for me it is more a server in net. As the port maintainer I'm biased, I'm used to see it in net, no idea what I would think as a simple user of the software. Regarding how to find serviio in our ports collection... well, I don't look in categories, I search for it either on freshports or more likely via "make quicksearch name=xxx". Does it really matter in this regard what the primary category is (letting consistence with other similar ports aside)? Hmmm... I think the short answer here would be that I want to keep serviio in net, and if there is a majority which thinks it needs to move to multimedia, then I don't mind to move it there (but I think this will surprise/confuse existing users of the port... those which don't care where it is). Bye, Alexander. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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