Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:04:50 -0400 From: "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Jie Gao <jeffgaofreebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full Message-ID: <417F80D2.2000209@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <639522fe04102616204f74bf14@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> <639522fe04102612404109e5e7@mail.gmail.com> <20041026194725.GR94897@seekingfire.com> <639522fe04102616204f74bf14@mail.gmail.com>
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Jie Gao wrote: >They are different if we do not have powerful search utilities. But >when we have good search tools both searching and browsing will >benefit from it. Look at the WWW search engines (google, yahoo, ...). >Almost all of them have web site directories, which are for browsing >but benefit a lot from the search technologies. > >If we have good logical categories for the ports, and have good >indexing and searching tools, it does not matter where the ports are >physically put. And surely a better interface for browsing can be >built on top of that. > > How about freshports? Regards, Frank
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