From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Dec 14 18:44:32 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9520E8AE8B for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A592072A0A for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id A4EC6E8AE8A; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4933E8AE89 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: from apnoea.adamw.org (apnoea.adamw.org [104.225.5.94]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "apnoea.adamw.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B6CF72A09 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: by apnoea.adamw.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 66d5029f TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:44:30 -0700 (MST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; delsp=yes; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.2 \(3445.5.20\)) Subject: Re: Suggesting new virtual categories: physics and chemistry From: Adam Weinberger In-Reply-To: <4de17fb0-6821-d278-3ceb-e638f471dbc9@rawbw.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:44:29 -0700 Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <45DB14EE-0B3A-47F6-8A0F-27AEB18D226A@adamw.org> References: <4de17fb0-6821-d278-3ceb-e638f471dbc9@rawbw.com> To: Yuri X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.5.20) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:32 -0000 > On 14 Dec, 2017, at 9:47, Yuri wrote: > > Some ports naturally fall under these categories: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13481 > > > Thanks, > Yuri I am a big fan of virtual categories. They make wading through the nearly 30,000 ports a much easier task. It's even more important for specialized fields of study. The downside to categories is that they make it WORSE if they're not maintained. Part of the new category process is making 100% sure that all chemistry and physics ports are located (be sure to look in biology/ and math/ too). There's no minimum number of ports required to create a category, and precedent is simply "more than a few." Six ports (as proposed for physics) is almost certainly too low. It might be more useful to just make sure that the word "physics" appears in the COMMENT for those ports. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org http://www.adamw.org