From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 08:13:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFF116A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:13:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chilled.skew.org (skew.org [65.101.207.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DFE43D46 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:13:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@skew.org) Received: from chilled.skew.org (localhost.skew.org [127.0.0.1]) by chilled.skew.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5U8DNaN045261 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:13:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike@chilled.skew.org) Received: (from mike@localhost) by chilled.skew.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5U8DNFS045260 for doc@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:13:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike) From: Mike Brown Message-Id: <200406300813.i5U8DNFS045260@chilled.skew.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:13:23 -0600 (MDT) X-Whoa: whoa. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL90 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Porters Handbook: choosing the right category X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:13:43 -0000 [posted to freebsd-ports on Jun 22; no answer there, so posting here, if for no other reason than to point out a need for clarification in the Porters Handbook] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html In section 5.3.3, the Porters Handbook says, under "Choosing the right category", "Specific categories win over less-specific ones. For instance, an HTML editor should be listed as www editors, not the other way around." I have no idea what is meant by "win over" in this context. Does the winner come first or last? It's not really clear to me that 'www' is any more or less specific than 'editors'. Editors seems like a broad category that you could narrow down by constraining it to just those athat apply to the web, and the software is primarily an editor, so I'd think 'editors' is the more important category. The ports I am working on are in 3 categories: python, www, textproc Would that be the right order? Is python more specific than the web? Is text processing less specific? It seems like I'm being encouraged to decide which tastes more like chicken. here: bicycling, or happiness. And I feel like an idiot for not knowing the answer.