ports/127999: It is illogical layout of ports

[Dmitry Marakasov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/127999; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/127999: It is illogical layout of ports
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:26:57 +0400

 Those are not illogical. I'd say, sometimes inconsistent, but not
 illogical for sure.
 
 > 1.
 > misc/k3b-i18n
 > www/firefox-i18n
 > mail/thunderbird-i18n
 Why's those illogical? Where would you place them?
 
 misc/k3b -> misc/k3b-i18n
 www/firefox -> www/firefox-i18n
 mail/thunderbird -> mail/thunderbird-i18n
 
 Since we don't have i18n category, those are nowhere better to place
 to. What I find inconsistent however, is:
 
 uk-aspell: /usr/ports/ukrainian/aspell
 vi-aspell: /usr/ports/vietnamese/aspell
 , but
 yi-aspell: /usr/ports/textproc/yi-aspell
 zu-aspell: /usr/ports/textproc/zu-aspell
 
 Still, I don't see better solution.
 
 > 2.
 > multimedia/xmms-skins
 > x11-themes/audacious-skins
 > multimedia/smplayer-themes
 ${PORTNAME}-(skins|themes) logically belongs to both ${PORTNAME}'s
 category and x11-themes.
 
 Arguments for the former:
 - Be where it's parent reside. So `ls | grep xmms` will show both xmms
   and all relevant skins/plugins/addons/mods/whatever (that's very weak
   argument actually, as audio format plugins already belong to audio,
   video format plugins belong to multimedia/, network plugins belong to
   net/ etc.)
 - x11-themes feels more likely for x11 wm or x11 toolkits themes.
 Arguments for the latter:
 - ${PORTNAME}'s category is not polluted. Say, xmms-skins have nothing
   to do with multimedia actually. 
 - All skins are in the same place. And you can ls x11-themes/ | gerp
   bluecurve to find matchign themes for different apps/toolkits/wm's.
 
 I'd say I'm for the latter, as both arguments for the former are pretty
 weak. Though I'm used to have mplayer-skins beside mplayer.
 
 > 3.
 > x11/gsynaptics
 > sysutils/ksynaptics
 Here I agree. Inconsistency again, but ?synaptics belong both to x11 and
 sysutils.
 
 > 4.
 > net-im/echat (irc/echat?)
 It's some kind of broadcast LAN chat, not irc. Doesn't quite feels like
 IM for me as well, as I associate IM with user-to-user chat like ICQ
 or Jabber. Althrough it fits well into Wikipedia's definition of IM:
 
 "Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two
 or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers
 connected over a network such as the Internet."
 
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 As you can see, all those are located in pretty logical places (at
 least without apparently more suitable places), althrough some
 subjects may belong to different categories at once.
 Anyway, I don't think it's good idea to move ports around - specific
 port will still reside in single category of multiple it probably
 logically belongs to, so it'll only produce useless noise without
 any gain.
 
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