Categories are evil

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-08-22 10:13:18 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:34 AM, Randall Wood wrote:
>> I understand that some directories under the proposed scheme may be large, 
>> such as /p/p5, /p/py, /g/gn but it seems that this would not be any real 
>> change from the current situation for the perl, python, devel, and other 
>> directories that exist now.
>
> I don't understand what this scheme buys us (other than port maintainers 
> not having to choose a place to put a port).

But that should be easier to find where a port is located (and the
primary category could be changed more easily if need be).

Moreover, if this is implemented, I think that prefixes should be
optional, so that those who use a local source with a few ports only
could choose to avoid prefixes.

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