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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Julian Jenkins <julianj@vast.unsw.edu.au>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: new category: astro
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.960919065321.3568A-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960919151652.17244B-100000@sepia>

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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Julian Jenkins wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
> >  * Hmmmm.  How about "science" as a more general category?
> > 
> > That's a little too general.  For one thing, the "math" category is
> > going to be a proper subset of that.  (And then there is this thing
> > called "computer science".... :)
> 
> Does the ports tree have to be all on one level?
> If not then we could have categories like:
> 
> science/math
> x11/screensavers

I don't think this is easily possible, it'd ruin the recursive makefile
stuff for SUBDIRS.

> 
> Kaveman
> 

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