From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 13:37:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B506837B40F for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8OKbau09708; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:37:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:37:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which Ports are what Message-ID: <20010924153721.A5639@dan.emsphone.com> References: <15278.60789.354430.399534@guru.mired.org> <3kn13kwd9c.13k@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3kn13kwd9c.13k@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 24), Gary W. Swearingen said: > Mike Meyer writes: > > The perl section of the ports is programs/modules *written in* > > perl. > > That strikes me as an odd way to categorize software. > > I suppose some people don't want Perl on their system and having the > Perl programs integrated with the mainstream (ie, compiled?) programs > causes some kind of problem for them. Isn't there some way to solve > those problems while allowing the Perl programs to be integrated so > people can see them in the regular categories? You do see them in regular categories. A port can be in many categories at once. The current winner is "devel/SWIG-devel", which is in devel, perl5, python, ruby, and tcl82. > Or maybe I shouldn't care about port directory structure at all and I > should only care about the categorization of the ports html files > (which then shouldn't be in the ports directories)? Correct. In fact, if you look at the physical layout of the ports tree, you'll notice there is no perl/ directory at all. The Perl category is a virtual one. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message