Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:40:09 -0600 From: Jie Gao <jeffgaofreebsd@gmail.com> To: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full Message-ID: <639522fe04102612404109e5e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4179366C.9010404@kutulu.org> References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> <41791AF7.2050009@vonostingroup.com><4179366C.9010404@kutulu.org>
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I agree this. If we have a powerful search utility instead of the simple "make search", it doesn't matter how large the directories are. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:33:48 -0400, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> wrote: > Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > > Reading between the lines, the problem you're having is that the ports > > aren't well enough categorized at the moment. How about borrowing an idea > > from some of the knowledge databases, and using keywords to mark ports? > > Eg, instead of creating a www-server category, the apache port could be > > marked "server www". linux-opera could be market "binary browser client > > linux www" or something like that. > > FreeBSD already has "virtual" categories -- categories that aren't used > to physically sort the ports. For example, devel/tcl84/Makefile has: > CATEGORIES= lang tcl84 > > tcl84 isn't a real folders, but it's listed in a number of port's > $ make search key=tcl84 | grep "Port:" | wc -l > 40 > > One thing I don't see is a way to search or sort by category, but I > admit to not having looking very hard. > > --Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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