From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 22:10:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EC616A41F; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:10:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EFE43D45; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:10:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 670E62A12; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:10:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:10:04 -0500 To: Pav Lucistnik Message-ID: <20050819221004.GB9378@soaustin.net> References: <1124485166.43744.36.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1124485166.43744.36.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: restructuring Porter's Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:10:07 -0000 FWIW, some of this I've already brainstormed with Pav off-list, so don't be too surprised that I like most of these ideas -- I had always felt the PH really needed some attention like this. On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:59:26PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Here's the list of proposed changes: > > - replace 13.5 with a Advanced pkg-plist methods section > - move existing 13.5 Changing plist based on make variables under new > 13.5 section > - move 17.11 Cleaning up empty directories under new 13.5 section > - move 17.16 Configuration files under new 13.5 section > - move 19 Automated package list creation under new 13.5 section I'm in favor of all of these. > Maybe dedicate a whole top level category to pkg-plist? Say, after > Special considerations? I'm neutral on this. > - move 10 Ports that require Motif under 6 Special considerations > - move 7 MASTERDIR under 5 Configuring the Makefile I'm in favor of these. > - move 11 X11 fonts under 6, or even combine with 6.4 Using X11 I'd say the latter. > - combine 8 Shared libraries with 6.1 Shared Libraries ? > - drop 17.23 completely I'm in favor of these too. I have some other ideas about regrouping but IMHO we should do these first on the theory that it will be much better than what we have. mcl