[HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes

Martin Wilke miwi at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 24 23:11:45 UTC 2011


so can u guys please come back to the review of the ports for the categorie
move?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 19.03.2011 at 09:49:39 +0800, 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.
>
> Why? I can understand you'd like to move the handful of x11-servers into
> x11, but what do you gain by splitting www?
>
> The time and repo-churn could probably be spent on something more
> constructive than moving ports around.
>
> Uli -- "Hierarchies don't work!"
>



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        Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org)

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