[SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 21 October 2005 15:39, you wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:19:47PM -0700, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > Seems like the quantity of ports available will eventually hit a plateau
> > with the current two level directory structure.  No one is afraid to
> > update the basic OS when its needed, even when it means using an entirly
> > different file system ( ie. UFS1 -=> 2 ),  why be so scared when it comes
> > to the ports system?
>
> Then PLEASE SUBMIT PATCHES.  Tested ones.  Involving portsmon.  Involving
> the build cluster.  Involving marcusom tinderbox.  Involving FreshPorts.
> Involving everything in bsd.*.mk.  Involving fixing up all the dependencies
> after all the thousands of repocopies.
>
> You will be submitting thousands, if not tens of thousands, of lines of
> patches to do so, invoving sh, awk, sed, perl, python, and SQL -- that I
> know of.  There are probably others.
>
> Now: I am not going to discuss this issue any further until I see those
> patches.
>
> People, you just have No Idea how much work you are talking about here,
> just to fiddle around with organizing ports into directories on a physical
> disk, which I will continue to restate my opinion until I am blue in the
> face that is the wrong problem to solve _anyway_.
>
> The _right_ problems to solve are searching and browsing.  If you solve
> those problems correctly, the physical layout on disk becomes hidden as
> an implementation detail and no one but hardcore ports developers ever
> has to think about it again.
>
> And you don't have to regression test thousands of lines of patches to
> do so.
>
> This is at least the 20th time this particular idea has been floated.
> It hasn't gotten any better the last 19 times.  Please go back and read
> the archives.  I'm done discussing it.
>
> mcl

You seem to have your feet well planted on this issue, probably for good 
reason.  

What about a  /usr/ports2 multilevel directory with softlinks to ports 
in /usr/ports???  I fiddle with this a bit, if it looks good I'll put 
something together as a port for you to take a look at.

-Mike