[HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

Martin Wilke miwi at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 19 04:54:16 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Philip M. Gollucci
<pgollucci at p6m7g8.com>wrote:

> On 3/18/2011 9:49 PM, Martin Wilke wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > as the Ports Collection continue to grow, we have decided to
> > do some changes to the category layout. The www category, second
> > largest with over 2000 individual ports, will have three subcategories
> > spinned out. On the other side, x11-servers category, with only
> > 10 ports, will be folded into regular x11 category.
> >
> > Attached is a proposed list of ports being moved from the www category.
> > Please review, discuss and report ommissions and mistakes. The general
> > key to the new categories is as follows:
> >
> > www-clients - browsers, rss clients, wget-alike, webapi/soap clients,
> > benchmarks
> > www-servers - http servers, proxy servers, everything related to apache
>
> How did you generate this list ?
>  - Did you set WITH_APACHE and build and INDEX and use that ?
>  - grep Makefile(s)
>  - Use Default INDEX ?
>  - Other ?
>
>
> reading port by port from scratch...


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