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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:28:02 +0100
From:      Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with FreshPorts
Message-ID:  <1099985282.676.2.camel@moonlight>
In-Reply-To: <20041109022041.4896.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041109022041.4896.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com>

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> Perhaps my concern about replacing the ports page with Freshports is that by
> default Freshports focuses more on the changes than on the categories and it
> makes a little more difficult (for newbies) to find the port they want. 

Yeah, thats true. /ports/ actually *could* be replaced with
http://www.freshports.org/categories.php but not with the Freshports
frontpage. I always liked /ports/ more because of that.

Another primitive alternative (that I use occasionally) would be
file:///usr/ports/README.html ;-)

/Roman




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