Categories are evil

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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

easier than 'port dir portname' ?

> (and the
> primary category could be changed more easily if need be).

How often does this really happen? (and svn mv isn't really that hard  
anyway).

> 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.

That might be a useful enhancement.

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