Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 17:45:58 -0500 From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme Message-ID: <19980703174558.C6665@enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199807030335.NAA01847@cain.gsoft.com.au>; from Daniel O'Connor on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 01:05:54PM %2B0930 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702095334.29419A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> <199807030335.NAA01847@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 01:05:54PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > maybe we might consider having more than one directory level? like > > > net/irc/bitchx, net/ftp/ncftp3, etc ... ? > > Sounds good, except that many ports would be their entire "Application > > Type" group. I like the idea though; add more sorting heuristics, based 3 > > layers deep: > Hmm.. if they're all ogoing to be tar.gz's anyway, my not put them in a > signle directory and use a simple DB to keep track of them. That way you can > have one port in multiple categories.. It might be irritating to have a directory on one's system containing 30,000 files, or even 1500 files ... especially if you're the FTP server distrbuting the files in question ... we do imagine a day when FreeBSD has really taken off and the ports collection has grown to an awesome, scarey size, and we've planned for it to scale happily, ya? :) A DB would still be nice. "Multiple categories" could be kludged into the fs with symlinks. :) Of course, with a DB interface, there's no compelling reason to keep several hundred tarballs on your system in the first place. ;) -danny -- // dannyman yori aiokomete || Our Honored Symbol deserves \\/ http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ || an Honorable Retirement (UIUC) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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