From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 16:33:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F337116A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:33:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (211.215.33.65.cfl.rr.com [65.33.215.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D29043D46 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:33:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7752C12; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:33:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4179366C.9010404@kutulu.org> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:33:48 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Lutz References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> <41791AF7.2050009@vonostingroup.com> <200410221824.12294.benlutz@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <200410221824.12294.benlutz@datacomm.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:33:51 -0000 Benjamin Lutz wrote: > Reading between the lines, the problem you're having is that the ports > aren't well enough categorized at the moment. How about borrowing an idea > from some of the knowledge databases, and using keywords to mark ports? > Eg, instead of creating a www-server category, the apache port could be > marked "server www". linux-opera could be market "binary browser client > linux www" or something like that. FreeBSD already has "virtual" categories -- categories that aren't used to physically sort the ports. For example, devel/tcl84/Makefile has: CATEGORIES= lang tcl84 tcl84 isn't a real folders, but it's listed in a number of port's $ make search key=tcl84 | grep "Port:" | wc -l 40 One thing I don't see is a way to search or sort by category, but I admit to not having looking very hard. --Mike