Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:17:54 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml Message-ID: <20021121001753.GA14477@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021120203840.GA52271@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <200211180932.gAI9Wsk5074770@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021118164406.GC19355@xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com> <20021118185511.GG12906@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021120203840.GA52271@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:38:40AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: It seems to me that there are two issues here: > I've recently searched the ports for VCD/DVD players, WEB browsers, > WEB proxy servers and C tutorials. In each case, I needed to read > all the pkg-descr files in the relevant category. (Note that neither > ogle nor mplayer mention 'VCD' so just grepping doesn't work). 1) Searching the ports collection > As an example, 'www' currently contains 442 ports. These can be > fairly cleanly split into browsers, servers, proxies, log post- > processors and browser or server plugins. (I agree there is some > overlap - apache can be a server and/or a proxy). If I'm looking for > a new browser to experiment with, it would be much easier to just > peruse a list of WEB browser ports than a list of >400 ports which > have something to do with the WEB. 2) More fine-grained indexing of catgeories Issue #1 is a problem I've thought about from time to time, but I haven't come up with many bright ideas about how to improve the existing 'make search'. Issue #2 is something that has been discussed a number of times in the past, and there are some patches attached to a PR towards implementing a 3-level ports collection along the lines you suggest. While this is something that pretty much everyone would like, it doesn't appear to have a current "sponsor" among the members of portmgr who can shepherd along the process of implementation, testing and deployment. Kris --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93CYxWry0BWjoQKURAsFOAKC6QHgOt081vjSVXXk4GJ6p9vDnnwCfTqQq kUE4u8SUojkHkdibiw88t9w= =oibh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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