Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:38:36 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE, Gnome not coming down via cvsup Message-ID: <20031217083836.GB4785@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031217040014.GA58365@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20031217040014.GA58365@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:00:14AM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> I run cvsup to get the ports collection updates about once or twice a wee=
k.
> I noticed that the list of ports on the FreeBSD website has separate
> categories for KDE and Gnome. However, when I cvsup with 'ports-all' in =
my
> cvsup file, I don't get these directories in /usr/ports/.
>=20
> Is this an issue for some reason, or just a silly oversight of mine?
These are so called 'virtual' categories, which means essentially what
you've observed: the port has the entry in it's CATEGORIES variable,
but there isn't a corresponding directory in the ports tree. A
virtual category cannot be the first category in the list.
Virtual categories exist to provide alternate routes to locating a
port or package via the web site. If they are sufficiently popular,
eventually they may transform into a real category, as happened to the
'dns' category fairly recently.
Cheers,
Matthew
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