Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:52:15 +0100 (CET) From: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: p5 -* ports Message-ID: <20041123105215.6FD6C1CCB5@turtle.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041119215216.GA29628@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:58:28AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > Just throwing this out for input: > > > > Would it be useful to make a /usr/ports/perl directory and then put > > all of the p5-* ports into it for easy browsing? > > Not really - it's more useful to know that they're modules for > networking, or for security, etc. than it is to know that they're perl > modules (that's obvious from the name). If you really want an > enormous list of all perl5 modules in the ports tree, you can browse > the perl5 virtual category using www.freebsd.org/ports. I'd say that the advantage is more that they'd disappear from the common categories, then that one could browse them easier ;-) Half an year back there was some talk about a deeper nested hierarchy, is something like that still planned? (e.g. building a hierachy lang/perl/network etc etc)
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