From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 14 18:26:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7651E3D04; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:26:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26196; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA76608; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:26:56 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Doug Barton Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: multi-level categories Message-ID: <20000214182656.A76484@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: FreeBSD Ports References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug@gorean.org on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 05:45:57PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > I also agree that "patches" should be its own directory, in part > for the reasons you mention here. I still don't see it. What is the big clutter people are finding? Am I the only one with my Xterms set to 80x24 or larger? While some may find a packages/ directory just "feels nice and cosy" remember what our goal here is -- reduced directories and files, each directory contains a CVS/ directory and another 3 files. Thus by keeping patches (which are *NICELY* prefixed) in the main dir, we save 5 inodes alone. > Hrrmm..... I can't help thinking that we are leaving too many > exceptions behind, especially when you're talking about so few To me this contradicts what you said above as patches/ is a contradiction w/o logic or reason -- other than that's how we've always done things. Please people don't loose sight of our goal -- when we have 6000 ports, think how much savings we would get by not having a patches/ directory. This conversion is going to be painful -- do we really want to do it again soon? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message