From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 11:47:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1090316A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:47:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@sigpipe.cz) Received: from isis.sigpipe.cz (fw.sigpipe.cz [62.245.70.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4703643D49 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:47:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@sigpipe.cz) Received: by isis.sigpipe.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EC4961F87BF1; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:47:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:47:11 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" Message-ID: <20050904114711.GA50185@isis.sigpipe.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <431ABEF3.2090101@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431ABEF3.2090101@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an alternative to 5.3.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:47:15 -0000 # LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de / 2005-09-04 11:31:31 +0200: > While reading through the porters handbook (section 5.3.5) I thought it > would be an easy alternative to a reorganisation to have a keyword file > for every port that holds in every line one keyword that represents a > category (it's popular to call this tagging, now). Something like this is already in place, it's called CATEGORIES (a make macro). > It would be easy to make a script that searches through all ports' > keyword files. That already exists. > It would make sense for such ports as java/eclipse which somehow in my > opinion also belongs into devel, since it's a software development tool > with plugins for a lot of programming languages like C/C++ or PHP. It *is* in devel: roman@isis /usr/ports 1007:0 > make search name=\^eclipse-'[[:digit:]]' display=path,cat Path: /usr/ports/java/eclipse Index: java devel roman@isis /usr/ports 1008:0 > make -V CATEGORIES -f java/eclipse/Makefile java devel roman@isis /usr/ports 1009:0 > -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991