Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:33:48 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full Message-ID: <4179366C.9010404@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <200410221824.12294.benlutz@datacomm.ch> References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> <41791AF7.2050009@vonostingroup.com> <200410221824.12294.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> Reading between the lines, the problem you're having is that the ports
> aren't well enough categorized at the moment. How about borrowing an idea
> from some of the knowledge databases, and using keywords to mark ports?
> Eg, instead of creating a www-server category, the apache port could be
> marked "server www". linux-opera could be market "binary browser client
> linux www" or something like that.
FreeBSD already has "virtual" categories -- categories that aren't used
to physically sort the ports. For example, devel/tcl84/Makefile has:
CATEGORIES= lang tcl84
tcl84 isn't a real folders, but it's listed in a number of port's
$ make search key=tcl84 | grep "Port:" | wc -l
40
One thing I don't see is a way to search or sort by category, but I
admit to not having looking very hard.
--Mike
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