Suggestion to split games category into games-console, games-engine and games

[Sid]

Hi,
You can remove categories by using the REFUSE argument in /etc/portsnap.conf . See the manpage for portsnap.conf. Then obviously, run portsnap.
For other ports or package management tools, I don't remember clearly if or how you can do this.

Something like:
REFUSE x11 irc games cad finance

You can extract a fresh ports tree, but it's not required. Also consider, that some ports may be missing to build ports you've set, but that's likely to be a rare or an insignificant problem.

> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 3:49 PM
> From: "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com>
> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Suggestion to split games category into games-console, games-engine and games

> > /usr/ports/games is already very large.
> > What about splitting up games in the ports tree into games, games-console and games-engine?
>
> What about a configure file or option to exclude certain branches of the ports tree os I don't have to keep downloading updates to packages I will never run?
>
> For example, I have no need of any of the languages, X11-*, irc, games, cad, or finance on my mail server.