Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:15:38 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5 -* ports Message-ID: <20041119151538.GA51106@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200411190858.28625.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200411190858.28625.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:58:28AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Just throwing this out for input: > > Would it be useful to make a /usr/ports/perl directory and then put > all of the p5-* ports into it for easy browsing? Probably not. It would be about as useful as making a /usr/ports/c++ directory and then put all the ports written in C++ into it - i.e. not very useful. The various ports categories are used to classify ports according to what they *do* not what language has been used to write them. (That being said, I believe most p5-* ports do belong to the virtual perl5 category, so what you want could be done using some program that allows you to browse the ports tree by virtual categories as well as the physical ones.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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