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Date:      Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:33:26 +0100
From:      Lars Thegler <lth@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Request for comments: port-tags
Message-ID:  <437062D6.6050001@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <43704ACA.1070708@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20051107154634.GA40923@heechee.tobez.org> <43704ACA.1070708@FreeBSD.org>

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Alex Dupre wrote:
> like it very much. One thing we can add to enhance the tag 
> classification is to add an optional PORTTAGS variable where we can 
> define additional tags (not present in CATEGORY and COMMENT) for the 
> port, so that "Maildir" could be for example associated with 
> mail/dovecot. This will require additional work for maintainers, but I 
> think it'll highly improve the searches.

I suspect most (if not all) tag addition could be done within COMMENT 
itself. For people browsing the portstree through other means, say, 
FreshPorts, improving COMMENT makes very good sense, IMHO.

/Lars



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