From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 18 18:26:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05824 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05789; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15607; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:26:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01122; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:26:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:26:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Satoshi Asami cc: ache@nagual.ru, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new category: astro In-Reply-To: <199609190014.RAA07183@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I object, astrology is human-oriented survival technique or > * art of archetypical symbolism, any scientific methods allowed there, > * but it have little relation with kiddy science stuff which can't > * give anything to human soul being by itself > * (only as a tool withing greater discipline). > > Well ok, no astrology then. I don't want to get involved in religious > wars. > > What do people think about games or screensavers? I mean, the ones > that create random patters that look like stars. I'd like to include > those too, if it's ok (otherwise it's going to be very lonely...). Seeing as there are very few ports in our collection that are unambiguously defined by only a single possible category, I think worrying over categories is needless. What is needed is a better way to find ports by keywords, not arguments over categories. We should have (IMO) a KEYWORDS variable, that would have a list of possible search words, in each port. Then a Makefile target could find things for folks. How often has a thing been ported recently, only to find it was already there in another category? I would personally catgegorize them alphabetically, to stop this nonsense argument, because (until I here the voice of God telling me the One True Way) there isn't any right answer. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------