From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 09:00:42 2006 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 69D2316A433; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:00:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roth@droopy.unibe.ch) Received: from mailhub03.unibe.ch (mailhub.unibe.ch [130.92.9.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2750A43D9E; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:00:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roth@droopy.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (scanhub03.unibe.ch [130.92.5.63]) by mailhub03.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7884F42785; Tue, 16 May 2006 11:00:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailhub03.unibe.ch ([130.92.9.70]) by localhost (scanhub03.unibe.ch [130.92.5.63]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13139-18-85; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from asterix.unibe.ch (asterix.unibe.ch [130.92.64.4]) by mailhub03.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB0D425C2; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from droopy.unibe.ch (droopy [130.92.64.20]) by asterix.unibe.ch (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4G8xxJu023724; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:59 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from roth@localhost) by droopy.unibe.ch (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id k4G8xwYN024205; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:58 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:58 +0200 From: Tobias Roth To: Pav Lucistnik Message-ID: <20060516085958.GA24178@droopy.unibe.ch> References: <20060515222815.GA2535@picobyte.net> <20060516060651.GA52578@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <1147766584.14703.2.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1147766584.14703.2.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Warning! Using Outlook is insecure and promotes virus distribution. Please use a different email client. X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New category - ports/packages specific tools? 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: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:00:44 -0000 On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:03:04AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Vasil Dimov píše v út 16. 05. 2006 v 09:06 +0300: > > > P.S. Pav: from the 61 currently existing categories 26 (43%) have less > > than 100 ports and 9 (15%) are smaller than the suggested one. > > I'd be happy to get rid of these small categories, in a greater scheme > to unclutter the /usr/ports. I have to somewhat agree. If you look at Gentoo for example (ok, last time I looked has been a while, maybe the situation has improved), there are far too many categories with fuzzy names. That makes it hard to find things. I propose: 1) keep the number of categories rather low, but 2) when discussing a possible new categorie, base this discussion on how much the new category can be differntiated from already existing ones. As an example, it is sometimes hard to differentiate between net and net-mgmt, however I think port-mgmt is a very good naming for a very distinct category of ports. 3) still keep a minimum number of ports as a requirement, but make that number rather low, say 20 or 30 cheers, Tobias