Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:11:06 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>, Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comment on new categories? Message-ID: <19980828191106.B15895@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <871zr6lbx8.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>; from Thomas Gellekum on Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 08:36:19AM %2B0200 References: <199807272355.QAA14985@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <871zr6lbx8.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 08:36:19AM +0200, Thomas Gellekum wrote: > asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) writes: > > > What do people think about the following new categories? > > > > deskutils > > x11-fms (file managers) > > x11-wms (window managers) > > x11-widgets > > Do we need to be so terse? `x11-windowmanagers' would be fine with > me. `filemanagers' could be a broader category including some of the > filemanglers from misc (ytree, mc, ...). I like the terse version. This has the advantage, that build and run dependencies nearly always fit into a better looking 80 columns scheme. If the names are too long, then the chance of wrapped around lines is much higher and such lines look ugly for me. For me it's a matter of style and functionality. My $0.02 -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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