Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:52:40 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Sokolov Alexey <nullbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: It is illogical layout of ports Message-ID: <44y70vw85z.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081011113530.GA61293@icarus.home.lan> (Jeremy Chadwick's message of "Sat\, 11 Oct 2008 04\:35\:30 -0700") References: <200810111035.44555.nullbsd@gmail.com> <20081011113530.GA61293@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:35:44AM +0300, Sokolov Alexey wrote: >> Hi! >> The location of some ports contradictory. They need all rank in the categories >> you want. > > There's a grey area with some that you need to keep in mind. I'll give > you a perfect example: irc/bitlbee. > > bitlbee is an IM-to-IRC gateway. It acts as a stand-alone IRC server, > but it bridges Windows Live/MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, and Jabber to IRC > so that you can talk with IM contacts using an IRC client. > > So -- does this program go under net-im or irc? > > You can see my point. :-) There's also a "virtual categories" concept that allows a port to show up in more than one category. Some of the examples given by the original poster are already using this mechanism.
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