From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 19 03:54:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA17802 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA17774; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 03:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.20]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA22796; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA03766; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:54:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ginger.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:54:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: Julian Jenkins cc: Satoshi Asami , jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new category: astro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Julian Jenkins wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > * Hmmmm. How about "science" as a more general category? > > > > That's a little too general. For one thing, the "math" category is > > going to be a proper subset of that. (And then there is this thing > > called "computer science".... :) > > Does the ports tree have to be all on one level? > If not then we could have categories like: > > science/math > x11/screensavers I don't think this is easily possible, it'd ruin the recursive makefile stuff for SUBDIRS. > > Kaveman > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------