Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:25:43 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] new category suggestion Message-ID: <20011127182543.GA58337@sploo.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <20011127170732.D32687@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20011127143031.A31435@heechee.tobez.org> <20011127155709.GA56627@sploo.aagh.net> <20011127170732.D32687@heechee.tobez.org>
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* Anton Berezin (tobez@tobez.org) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:57:09PM +0000, Thomas Hurst wrote: > > > We already have categories like this. Personally I'd like all the > > language specific stuff moved to it's own category and have the > > languages as subcategories, which would make lots of small language > > categories mcuh less painful. > > Right. But here we come to the *much* more serious re-organization > of adding another level to our existing hierarchy. This has been > discussed before, to no avail. Personally, I'd like to see this > happen one day, but the amount of infrastructural changes is going > to be tremendous. I guess until someone does that at least as a > proof-of-concept project it just is not going to happen. Moving all the language stuff to their own category and then linking what's wanted to the root ports dir shouldn't cause any problems, should they? Well, other than it being a bit odd compared to the rest of the tree, and renaming being evil in cvs, heh. Are there any technical reasons for not, for example, recategorising the tree with softlinks? > > > 3. Add new category `finance'. > > > > > > The advantage of this is that the number of existing ports can be > > > moved there. > > > > And it's more generic, but how many ports is it likely to gather? > > Quite a bunch actually. Things like gnucash (currently in deskutils) > and p5-Business-CreditCard (currently in misc) come to mind. I count 4 ports - moneydance, kmymoney, gnucash and p5-Business-CreditCard, and yours makes 5, but that's just the ones with money/cash/card in the name. Just a thought - might a business category be better? -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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