[HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

[Peter Jeffery]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:34:35 -0000, Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org>  
wrote:

> 2011/3/23 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
>> On 03/23/2011 03:48, Peter Jeffery wrote:
>>>
>>> If I was looking for the Opera port, I'd look in www-clients and if
>>> it wasn't in there then the next thing that I would be doing is hand
>>> searching the INDEX file
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/ && make search name=opera
>
> Or
> find /usr/ports -maxdepth 2 -name opera
> Slower than make search but faster than building an INDEX file before
> make search !
>

So, considering it is so easy to find where the port it, does it really  
matter where it goes ?


I would have thought that the only structure that won't result in  
potential restructuring all
of the time is one that doesn't depend on separation by package class.

So something like:

All/o/opera

you can then build category based directories with symlinks to the main  
location based on what categories
the port reports that it is in, but these directories are really just  
helpers for find ports.


I'm sure that something like this has been mentioned before. But I don't  
see what else is going to stop
the categorization issue popping up all of the time.


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