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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:07:24 +0100
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
Cc:        Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposal for a new ports category
Message-ID:  <3DE48B4C.5020601@liwing.de>
References:  <20021126065227.GC8665@marvin.bsdng.org> <20021126094110.GA16714@terry.dragon2.net> <20021126134749.GB3199@iib.unsam.edu.ar>

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Fernan Aguero wrote:
> +----[ Esto dijo Ying-Chieh Liao (ijliao@FreeBSD.ORG):
> |
> | ports/tex/ may be a good idea
> | but put all of CTAN packages into our ports tree is not :p
> |
> +----]
> 
> Not all of CTAN ... perhaps some packages. Let people add
> packages to ports as they see fit. After all, there are many
> Perl packages/modules available as ports that are also part
> of CPAN. Why discriminate the TeX ones?
> 
> I agree with a separate category for TeX/LaTeX and friends.
> 
> Fernan
> 

That has discussed some month ago, too. The result was the idea to 
create a physical ports tree and build a logical basing on this (eg. 
ports/perl5/p5-Authen-PAM/ -> ports/security/)

Jens


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