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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Vizion wrote:

> You guys just do not get it.
> 
> I have spent over 45 five years in the computer industry and am fed up with 
> technologists who think in terms of their precious systems rather than on 
> behalf of people that use them.

This is an open-source project; patches speak louder than words. There 
is a process outlined in the porters' handbook (that I've pointed you at 
before) for getting ports system rejigs to even be considered.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html#PROPOSING-CATEGORIES

(Given the ability of existing tools to search for ports in "half-assed" 
virtual categories, I think you overstate your case.)

Cheers,
jan


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