ports/www is too full

Christopher Nehren apeiron at comcast.net
Fri Oct 22 15:55:18 PDT 2004


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:37:16 -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Portmgr has been, for quite some time now, looking into adding an extra
> tier to the ports tree. Assuming that they haven't abandoned the idea,
> I'd say it's best to divide www into subcategories, instead of 20 main
> categories.

Do you mean something like what OpenBSD does, with, for example, x11/gnome
and x11/kde? Both of those directories contain a group of ports. They're
like the FreeBSD metaports, but they're physical directories with
subdirectories.



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