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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:01:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      byron@omix.com (Byron Brummer)
To:        ryan@pcslink.com (Ryan Mooney)
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Small suggestion.
Message-ID:  <199903240001.QAA01000@thrush.omix.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903231816.LAA05779@pcslink.com> from Ryan Mooney at "Mar 23, 1999 11:16:45 am"

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Ryan Mooney <ryan@pcslink.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that a number of people I pointed there seemed to have a
> problem scrolling down far enough to see it, and its sort of hidden in the
> text.

	True enough.  I have a link to the CGI directly myself, so I never
	noticed. :-)

> Sticking it at the top wouldn't be that big a jump....  Also I thought it
> incongrous that the ports changes search under the "search" page is quite
> a bit better than the one under the ports page, as I can select which
> ports tree I want among other tuning knobs.

	What about advising frequent users/searchers to book mark a link
	to the CGI directly?

		http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi

> Perhaps making the search under the "ports" page simular to or the same as
> the one under the changes page would make life a lot easier.  Since the
> ports are such a big selling point, making them as easy to find as
> possible helps a lot.

	Agreed.  Along similar lines I'd *love* to see the search target of
	/usr/ports/Makefile moved into bsd.port.mk in such a way so that one
	could change to a subdirectory such as /usr/ports/print and run a
	`make search' for just that part of the tree.

-- 
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BSD:  A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts.  Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
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