From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 13 16:26:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2023ED6; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18355; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id QAA61280; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:26:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:26:37 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: "David O'Brien" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <20000213162637.B61133@tao.thought.org> References: <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <00021222301300.02765@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000213135122.B37646@dragon.nuxi.com> <00021318141200.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00021318141200.06543@nomad.dataplex.net>; from rkw@dataplex.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:51:52PM -0600 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:51:52PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:20:58PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: [[ ... ]] > > Improvements in the organization can make it easier to be selective. > > This is NOT a PROGRAMMING problem. For lack of a better description, it is a > problem in LIBRARY SCIENCE. It won't be solved by the "authors", but rather the > "librarians" > My take on this is that the more ideas we have, the better off the entire effort. I can't see a problem for at least 5 years --probably more--. So it would help (me at least) if you would detail outline the troubles you see down the road and what your solutions are. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message