Suggesting new virtual categories: physics and chemistry

Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org
Thu Dec 14 18:44:32 UTC 2017


> On 14 Dec, 2017, at 9:47, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> Some ports naturally fall under these categories:
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13481
>
>
> Thanks,
> Yuri

I am a big fan of virtual categories. They make wading through the nearly  
30,000 ports a much easier task. It's even more important for specialized  
fields of study.

The downside to categories is that they make it WORSE if they're not  
maintained. Part of the new category process is making 100% sure that all  
chemistry and physics ports are located (be sure to look in biology/ and  
math/ too).

There's no minimum number of ports required to create a category, and  
precedent is simply "more than a few." Six ports (as proposed for physics)  
is almost certainly too low. It might be more useful to just make sure that  
the word "physics" appears in the COMMENT for those ports.

# Adam


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