p5 -* ports

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:58:28AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > Just throwing this out for input:
> > 
> > Would it be useful to make a /usr/ports/perl directory and then put 
> > all of the p5-* ports into it for easy browsing?
> 
> Not really - it's more useful to know that they're modules for
> networking, or for security, etc. than it is to know that they're perl
> modules (that's obvious from the name).  If you really want an
> enormous list of all perl5 modules in the ports tree, you can browse
> the perl5 virtual category using www.freebsd.org/ports.

I'd say that the advantage is more that they'd disappear from the common
categories, then that one could browse them easier ;-)

Half an year  back there was some talk about a deeper nested hierarchy, is
something like that still planned?

(e.g.  building a hierachy lang/perl/network etc etc)