[SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports

[Mark Linimon]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:39:52PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> I'm not pointing this out for my use; I'm pretty adept at finding  
> stuff in ports.  I have a lot of co-workers who are experienced  
> programmers but not necessarily experience FreeBSD'ers and they often  
> have trouble finding ports even when they (almost) know the name.

That highlights my point that IMHO we need two different functionalities:
'search' and 'browse'.  'make search' is barely adequate for searching.
We have nothing at all for browsing (unless you count reading an entire
list of ports in hierarchy as 'browsing', which even an old command-line
kind of guy like me thinks is crude).

IMHO these things are better addressed at the application level, not
inside bsd.port.mk itself.  See sysutils/portmanager for what I think
is an interesting first step towards that direction.

That's where I think our work should focus, not on directory structure.

mcl