ports/www is too full

[Mike Edenfield]

Benjamin Lutz wrote:

> Reading between the lines, the problem you're having is that the ports 
> aren't well enough categorized at the moment. How about borrowing an idea 
> from some of the knowledge databases, and using keywords to mark ports? 
> Eg, instead of creating a www-server category, the apache port could be 
> marked "server www". linux-opera could be market "binary browser client 
> linux www" or something like that.

FreeBSD already has "virtual" categories -- categories that aren't used 
to physically sort the ports.  For example, devel/tcl84/Makefile has:
CATEGORIES=     lang tcl84

tcl84 isn't a real folders, but it's listed in a number of port's
$ make search key=tcl84 | grep "Port:" | wc -l
        40

One thing I don't see is a way to search or sort by category, but I 
admit to not having looking very hard.

--Mike