New category - ports/packages specific tools?

[Florent Thoumie]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:42 +0100, Spadge wrote:
> Hans Lambermont wrote:
> > Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > 
> >> Randy Pratt wrote:
> >>> Shaun Amott <shaun at inerd.com> wrote:
> >>>> There are lots of nifty tools in ports for handling ports and packages.
> >>>> It would be nice if they were all in one, easy to find place.
> > ...
> >>> I think this is an excellent idea.  It would make it much easier
> >>> to point new users to a category for ports tools.  I'd vote for
> >>> this to go ahead regardless of the number of ports.
> >> The first step surely is a virtual category.
> > ...
> > 
> > I'd like to see this happen as well. Next to the ease of use I'm
> > convinced that the grouping of ports management tools will improve them
> > in the longer run.
> > 
> > regards,
> >    Hans Lambermont
> 
> "If you build it they will come"
> 
> Maybe this will subliminally encourage people to write ports management 
> tools :)

I'd rather encourage people to fix or improve existing ones.

I'd vote for this new category though.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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