Re-organizing the directory hierarchy?

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri Aug 26 21:44:27 UTC 2011


Has portmgr considered a re-organization of the current
directory structure for ports?

troutmask:root[226] pwd
/usr/ports/devel
troutmask:root[227] ls | wc -l
    3633
troutmask:root[228] ls | grep -E ^p5- | wc -l
    1446
troutmask:root[229] ls | grep -E ^py- | wc -l
     275
troutmask:root[230] ls | grep -E ^ruby- | wc -l
      53

Having 1446 perl5 related directories sitting 
under ports/devel seems silly, and prevents
one from using ls to quick scan ports/devel
for diffent ports.

How about adding ports/perl5, ports/python, ports/ruby?
One can then categorize, for example, the various p5-*
under an appropriate subdir ports/perl5/{math|www|mail}

-- 
Steve


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list