Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:47:39 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6100 subdirectories in /usr/ports/devel! Message-ID: <20171228214739.GM99670@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <5A45620B.6080801@grosbein.net> References: <20171228203634.GK99670@rancor.immure.com> <5A4557E8.70907@grosbein.net> <5A455A04.4090100@grosbein.net> <20171228211639.GL99670@rancor.immure.com> <5A45620B.6080801@grosbein.net>
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 04:28:43AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 29.12.2017 4:16, Bob Willcox wrote:
>
> >> In fact, ports/devel is first but not only category having similar problem with p5-* stuff:
> >>
> >> $ cd /usr/ports
> >> $ find . -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | while read category; do printf "%15s " ${category#./}; ls $category | sed 's/-.*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -1; done | sort -k 2,2 -rn | head -15
> >> devel 1908 p5
> >> www 807 p5
> >> textproc 617 p5
> >> net 327 p5
> >> databases 259 p5
> >> security 258 p5
> >> math 146 p5
> >> mail 145 p5
> >> graphics 100 p5
> >> editors 98 libreoffice
> >> sysutils 75 rubygem
> >> converters 72 p5
> >> misc 63 p5
> >> net-mgmt 56 p5
> >> x11-toolkits 49 p5
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I happened to notice the py-* stuff due to some problems I have been
> > having with synth. I did notice the large number of p5-* subdirs but didn't
> > count them. :)
> >
> > Certainly seems to be out of control...
>
> I like we have all this p5-* stuff in the Ports.
> It seems that 1900+ devel/p5-* ports justify new p5-devel or devel-p5 category, though.
>
> But wouldn't such large move become a nightmare for users updating their systems?
Yeah, I don't mind them being in there (have to admit that I haven't ever been
a perl fan, not since Larry Wall's first version in the '80s), and agree with
you that we should give them their own directory (or directories). I think the
py-* entries could stand the same treatment.
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