Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:51:59 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: category qt? Message-ID: <3474310.DPmmpGpFb9@beastie.bionicmutton.org> In-Reply-To: <mailman.99.1545652802.79992.freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.99.1545652802.79992.freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
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--nextPart2999108.fqq9MUTMxn Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Monday, 24 December 2018 13:00:02 CET freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org wrote: > > The qt* ports spreads around in the whole portstree. > > > > It is reasonable to concentrate all these ports in a qt category? I > > think it is easier to find (and also easier to maintain). > > Indeed it is a bit annoying for me when I have to update qt* ports. > I don't use portmaster or similar (I don't like them): I wrote my own > utility, but it has still some issues, such as this one. I guess having > all the qt* ports in the same category would help. You might argue that all (?) the Qt ports are libraries and development tools, and so could live in the devel/ category. Or along other lines, that the split of Qt into a bunch of separate packages is superfluous and they should be merged (like gtk3, which is one big port -- I don't know if this is a useful functional analogy though). But what makes Qt special in this regard? (One answer I'll accept is "the ports need to be updated in a coordinated fashion"). The reason (for instance) that two of the Qt5 ports live in textproc/ is .. that they're concerned with doing text processing. That functional-categorization in the ports tree has been there since always. I guess it depends on the original post: "easier to find" for what? If you're calling for a *virtual* category (like KDE ports have), that makes immediate sense to me (but would leave the ports scattered around the ports tree). [ade] --nextPart2999108.fqq9MUTMxn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABEIAB0WIQTVFBoRsP760fy+Jisy7lRaPghTTwUCXCDkfwAKCRAy7lRaPghT T9VHAP4sLSrzbmCuKqM8VQyO4Y/NTMpXOvU0MrIKd428HkBtBQD8D9LlQB1oRlot 5BCkpA2CMH93uJK+b8VlECL1eOl+A+w= =5ytG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2999108.fqq9MUTMxn--
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