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Subject: Re: 6100 subdirectories in /usr/ports/devel!
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On 29/12/17 4:36 am, Bob Willcox wrote:
> Does anyone else feel that having 6100 subdirectories (939 are for py-* stuff)
> is a bit excessive? I hadn't really looked at the number of subdirectories
> there in quite a long time and was shocked to see how meny there are now.
>
yeah we really could do with a re-org..

like the languages (hungarian, japanese etc, not C, Perl ) shoudl be 
two levels down and we could do with a whole multi level setup.

(why are we limited to just one level of directories?)