From owner-cvs-ports  Fri Mar  8 05:55:25 1996
Return-Path: owner-cvs-ports
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA15542
          for cvs-ports-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:55:25 -0800 (PST)
Received: from solar.tlk.com (root@solar.tlk.com [194.97.84.34])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA15511
          Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:54:57 -0800 (PST)
Received: by solar.tlk.com 
	id <m0tv21o-00023GC@solar.tlk.com>; Fri, 8 Mar 96 14:16 MET
Message-Id: <m0tv21o-00023GC@solar.tlk.com>
From: torstenb@solar.tlk.com (Torsten Blum)
Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/libwww - Imported sources
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 14:16:16 +0100 (MET)
Cc: torstenb@tlk.com, coredump@nervosa.com,
        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org,
        cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199603081257.EAA20992@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Mar 8, 96 04:57:44 am
Reply-To: torstenb@tlk.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk

Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * I meant: it's only usefull for people who want to develop a www application
>  * with this particular library.
> 
> I know what you meant.  The "www" is the keyword there.

I don't think "www" is the right directory just because it's the most used
word on the net these days.

An Developer who wants to write an application using libwww will look in
the devel directory first.
Ports dependencies don't count because they're automatically installed

>  * autoconf, bcc, bison and so on are not useful for "Joe FreeBSD user" - that's
>  * why they are in the "devel" directory...
> 
> No, they are there because they are develpment tools and also don't
> fit into any other category.  The libwww port is both a development
> tool and a www-related package.

yes, but only someone who wants to write an application using libwww
will use it directly.

> And as I said before, when there are two or more categories that a port
> belongs to, the "catch-net" category wins -- like japanese, russian, and
> www.

catch-net ?

 -tb