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Date:      Sun, 2 Jun 2002 01:05:22 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "."@babolo.ru
To:        julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Splitting up ports.
Message-ID:  <200206012105.BAA18927@aaz.links.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205311602230.29361-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> from "Julian Elischer" at "May 31, 2 04:10:29 pm"

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Julian Elischer writes:
> The time has come to start working on making a hierachy from teh 
> ports tree..
> there are just too many ports now!
> 
> I was thinking of the following kinds of taxonomic scheme:
> 
> first order...   basic current scheme (though
> possibly 'national' types should be handled differntly)
> 
> second order: dependent on class but for example:
> audio/midi and audio/libraries audio/players... etc
>    it really depends on the major class what the subclasses would be.
> 
> also, net/analysis net/benchmarks net/dns net/transfer net/security
> 
> etc.
> 
> it's getting a bit crouded in there!
And another end :-) of tree:
I propose to group dependant ports
in one ports directory to base port, for example:
ports/x11-wm/sapphire/sapphire
ports/x11-wm/sapphire/sapphire-themes
ports/x11-wm/sapphire/sapphire-another-themes
  (no sapphire-another-themes in ports now)
See ports/38593 Three level ports: Patch and new ports
as another example with some patch.

Alternative to proposed path is to enlage list
of valid categories in such a way:
VALID_CATEGORIES+= audio/midi audio/libraries ... so on.
But a list of categories become so
flexible (x11-wm/sapphire is a category
in above) so some of ports submits
will change of VALID_CATEGORIES in Mk/bsd.port.mk.

Just remove VALID_CATEGORIES check?
Separate list of VALID_CATEGORIES to different file?
different files in main (first level) category directories?
Do not check subcategories (as PR/38593)?

Sorry for bad English

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