Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:18:55 -0800 (PST) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, jlemon@americantv.com, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/2190: need cross-reference to xpdf from X11 ports tree Message-ID: <199612110118.RAA16308@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199612102230.OAA07250@freefall.freebsd.org> (jlemon@americantv.com)
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* On the ports web page, xpdf is listed under graphics, but not under * X11. I looked under X11 first, and not finding it, assumed that it wasn't * ported to FreeBSD. Shouldn't there be a crossreference here somewhere? The "x11" category is not intended for X applications (otherwise half the ports tree would be there), but for utilities for the X Window System itself, such as font editors, window managers, widget sets, etc. (Or "the" X Window System itself, as in the case of x11/XFree86 :) It is recommended to consult the "list of all ports" if you are in doubt, categories are sometimes unclear in this respect. However, it is also clear that the ports that you find in the current "x11" category gives you the false impression that it includes everything that uses X. Hmm. Let me think about this. Maybe we can split up the X category (the one in the CATEGORIES line, not the subdirectory) "x11-apps", "x11-base", "x11-wm", "x11-term", "x11-widgets", etc. There also should be a way to add a short "comment" field to the category name, as currently the ports web page doesn't include one and is sort of cryptic. (We do have a x11/pkg/COMMENT file, for instance, but it is not necessary that the categories have the same name as the subdirectories in the ports tree, so we can't use that.) Hmm. Satoshi
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