suggestions for ports screening
Anton Berezin
tobez at tobez.org
Sun Nov 11 10:41:24 PST 2007
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:59:58PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:36:45PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > An example? If a programmer asks you if you want the blotz program (I
> > make up great fake names, don't I?) hows the user going to know the the
> > blotz program is a particular sound program, when they have no sound card?
>
> When I search for a certain program with some capabilities, I go
> through the INDEX file (/usr/ports/INDEX) or I go to freshmeat or
> freshports and do a search there. If I don't see "blotz" there, I'm
> not interested in it.
>
> > OK, My suggestion is for a two level system (yes, some of you are going
> > to recognize some of this from other OSes. G'wan, brag about it). The
> > first part is a small list of keywords (well, not terribly small, maybe
> > 100-200 of them, but most user's personal lists would be far shorter).
> > These words are descriptive of the sort of machine environment the user
> > wants, like, they might have the words SOUND, FMRADIO and TELEVISION to
> > show that they care to have those sort of dependencies built. All ports
> > would be required to export a list of words that they check for, before
> > they build. If a browser sees no SOUND word, it requires to sound
> > dependencies be built. Let me repeat this to get it clearly: the words
> > are used to qualify the dependcency lists, but if a particular port is
> > chosen, then it gets built, period. If a user asks for that sound
> > program explicitly, then it gets built, SOUND word or no SOUND word.
> > It's the dependency lists that have to check and modify themselves.
>
> This sounds like the ports-tag project started by tobez@ a long
> time ago: http://www.tobez.org/port-tags/. Not sure what the current
> status is.
It's not being developed any further due to general lack of interest. I
would love to have it resurrected provided there is aforementioned interest.
:-)
Cheers,
\Anton.
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