Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:06:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: precedence of categories Message-ID: <200406220906.i5M96fCu097560@chilled.skew.org>
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html In section 5.3.3, the Porters Handbook says, under "Choosing the right category", "Specific categories win over less-specific ones. For instance, an HTML editor should be listed as www editors, not the other way around." I have no idea what is meant by "win over" in this context. Does the winner come first or last? It's not really clear to me that 'www' is any more or less specific than 'editors'. Editors seems like a broad category that you could narrow down by constraining it to just those athat apply to the web, and the software is primarily an editor, so I'd think 'editors' is the more important category. The ports I am working on are in 3 categories: python, www, textproc Would that be the right order? Is python more specific than the web? Is text processing less specific? It seems like I'm being encouraged to decide which tastes more like chicken. here: bicycling, or happiness. And I feel like an idiot for not knowing the answer.
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