Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:57:09 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] new category suggestion Message-ID: <20011127155709.GA56627@sploo.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <20011127143031.A31435@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20011127143031.A31435@heechee.tobez.org>
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* Anton Berezin (tobez@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > So, here are three alternative suggestions: > > 1. Add new category `danish'. > > The disadvantage is that, in all likelyhood, there will be very small > number of ports in this category 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. Imagine having a category for each of the top 30 languages, the top level tree would get a bit ugly.. In fact, how about having the real dirs in a single top level dir, and let the user ln -s whichever one they're interested in? A foreign language category would also be a nice place for locale catalogues for apps that aren't usually included and the like. > 2. Add new category `scandinavian'. > > Anders Nordby says there will definitely more ports in this category, > should it be created. :-) Sounds good, but.. > 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? > The fourth suggestion is of course to not create anything and just put > the ports to the big heap of uncategorized ports `misc' has become.... With categories as specific as astronomy and biology, I do find it slightly odd there isn't a better category for tk regex engines, GUI archivers (goiing by the names alone - maybe they're more obscure than the names suggest :), networked cat replacements, findutils, and even quite common stuff like screen. -- 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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