From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 30 14:23:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8928037B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA620E; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:27:06 -0800 Message-ID: <39FDF458.541D3C25@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:21:12 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Newbie packages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "SILVER, MICHAEL A" wrote: > > I agree, what's the point of having everything divided among 'beginning', > 'intermediate', etc. Just label it with one of these tags. I am a newbie, > but perhaps not a much as others, how do I know to look at the intermediate > list?? Should I read each list? If I have to read each list, then why have > some ports listed in each? I'm going to do up a quick "dummy" category as if it were the finished product, then post it here. Then we can see what the final thing will look like (somewhat). A prototype, if you will. Then we can tweak it into the format that works for most people. Give me some time getting this together though... I see that there is interest, so at least I've shot the arrow somewhere near the target :-) David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message