Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:20:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps Message-ID: <46A1DDD1.6000900@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <46A1C9C0.5080205@FreeBSD.org> References: <46A05B21.90603@u.washington.edu> <46A0711F.2020200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <46A1068A.3010004@FreeBSD.org> <46A1C2C9.80704@infracaninophile.co.uk> <46A1C9C0.5080205@FreeBSD.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Doug Barton wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Again, the idea here was not to change anything in the ports >> themselves: just what was presented in the INDEX, > > Ok, then I think it's incumbent on you to explain what the benefit > would be. * Reduce the size of the INDEX * Make the index data directly answer the sort of questions most likely to come up in general use. The latter is, of course, subjective but I think knowing the answers to both 'what do I need to run this software?' and 'what else do I need to install this software?' is more useful than what we have at the moment. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGod3R8Mjk52CukIwRCKJCAJ0VBzcFxnNK+6aMDCklvwvYvm/YbACePNat QAoADDuGBD2bouGCalW8thw= =JOPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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