Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:28:54 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flaws in the ports system? Message-ID: <43594F86.2090300@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <20051021193339.GA14427@holestein.holy.cow> References: <4357D830.7060506@swehack.se> <435825F8.4020305@datacomm.ch> <20051021002031.GA12167@holestein.holy.cow> <43583699.9050308@datacomm.ch> <20051021193339.GA14427@holestein.holy.cow>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig820B2600112A0FEC0DF7FB2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Parv wrote: >>I guess what's missing is an all-powerful search tool. I have some >>ideas, maybe around christmas I find some time to write something. > > Can you give us a glimpse of what else is it that you think is > missing for Dec 25 is more than 2 months away? Sure. I use the ports' meta information for the following information most of the time: - Checking in which directory a port I already know exists is located, or how the dir name is spelt exactly in the case of version number suffixes and the like. - Searching for a port by keyword, ie basically what make search does. - Given a program name, get some information about it (ie, reading pkg-descr. Depending on the information I'd like to retrieve, quite a bit of typing is necessary, particularly in the case of slave ports. Also, the way to get to the information in the examples mentioned above is very different in each case. I'd like to make all the information available in way that allows easy and quick access, that is consistent across different kinds of queries, and maybe I can even make the whole thing somewhat intuitive to use too ;) Cheers Benjamin --------------enig820B2600112A0FEC0DF7FB2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDWU+JgShs4qbRdeQRAm92AJ9fQmV1Q3eG42zQPrRqxQ8ImcMVwQCfTldi a9ciKe7qjc5ytK68lD0YUHI= =dP9j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig820B2600112A0FEC0DF7FB2C--
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