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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:38:48 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Peter Jeffery <peterj@mister-j.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes
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> you can then build category based directories with symlinks to the main
> location based on what categories

My ports-mgmt/symports does something like this. It builds a full
directory tree of symlinks for the "secondary" categories.

> I'm sure that something like this has been mentioned before. But I don't see
> what else is going to stop
> the categorization issue popping up all of the time.

If we alphabetized the ports then there would be constant conversation
about how whether or not we should categorize them.

-- 
Eitan Adler



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