From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 16:45:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4666A16A4D1 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avocado.salatschuessel.net (avocado.salatschuessel.net [80.86.187.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC8A43D31 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:45:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 45517 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2004 16:44:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO curry.salatschuessel.net) (80.86.187.43) by avocado.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 22 Oct 2004 16:44:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:45:46 +0200 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Edwin Groothuis Message-Id: <20041022184546.50783a1a.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> References: <20041022074529.GN10363@k7.mavetju> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99-gtk2-20041010 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i386-unknown-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/www is too full X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:45:34 -0000 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > Ports/www is too full: 755 ports. > I don't see the point for splitting it. The problem I have (for example still with net and net-mgmt) is, I know what application I want to install. Problems with such a dividing is.. where the hell is my port in. I really have to start searching then where I for example found mod_php. Is it in www-servers-modules, is it in www-devel-php, or... hm, is it in devel or in lang? You see what I mean? Now "It has sth. to do with www, so it should be in www" -> "cd /usr/ports/www/mod_p" -> "ah there it is" Having many of subcategories would result in using heavaly make search or cd /usr/ports/*/mod_php4 which can take some time. and could fail of 1+ match. Virtual categories are fine imho. But please no pysical ones. What is the difference of having 700 directories in one dir or 3000? -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/