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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:38:29 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/www is too full
Message-ID:  <16761.17813.713808.55826@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410221128530.16582-100000@pancho>
References:  <16761.12913.961269.232207@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410221128530.16582-100000@pancho>

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Mark Linimon writes:

>  There is also the school of thought that we ought to identify
>  what problem we are trying to solve, and if it's merely a
>  'search/browse' type of problem, then we should fix our
>  search/browse interfaces and leave the directory layout alone.
>  
>  Unfortunately, this school of thought seems to have only one
>  adherent, which is myself :-)

	Coung mr in.
	It occurs we may be looking at multiple "problems", which may
or may mot have compatible solutions.  Someone mentioned finding a
(popular) port with a known name; I often want to look at all
programs which do <foo>, where FOO is far more detailed than the
existing categories support.
	Anyone else?


				Robert Huff





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