Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:26:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: ache@nagual.ru, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new category: astro Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960918212106.1000A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609190014.RAA07183@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I object, astrology is human-oriented survival technique or > * art of archetypical symbolism, any scientific methods allowed there, > * but it have little relation with kiddy science stuff which can't > * give anything to human soul being by itself > * (only as a tool withing greater discipline). > > Well ok, no astrology then. I don't want to get involved in religious > wars. > > What do people think about games or screensavers? I mean, the ones > that create random patters that look like stars. I'd like to include > those too, if it's ok (otherwise it's going to be very lonely...). Seeing as there are very few ports in our collection that are unambiguously defined by only a single possible category, I think worrying over categories is needless. What is needed is a better way to find ports by keywords, not arguments over categories. We should have (IMO) a KEYWORDS variable, that would have a list of possible search words, in each port. Then a Makefile target could find things for folks. How often has a thing been ported recently, only to find it was already there in another category? I would personally catgegorize them alphabetically, to stop this nonsense argument, because (until I here the voice of God telling me the One True Way) there isn't any right answer. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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