php category

[Randall Wood]

On 25 Oct 2007, at 06:21, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2007, at 05:15, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>> Randall Wood wrote:
>>
>>> The only requirement with regard to categories that I am aware of  
>>> is that a port be in a category in the dports tree so that  
>>> PortIndex can find it. While it makes sense that portlint should  
>>> issue warnings about categories that don't exist (was the  
>>> category a typo?), portlint in this case should not drive  
>>> behavior (unless, of course, the category was a typo like (for  
>>> example: gnmoe instead of gnome).
>>
>> port lint should probably just check the primary category... (at  
>> least that's the only ones that are in the list it knows)
>
> Maybe port lint should just check that the first category listed  
> matches the directory the portfile is actually in? So, for example,  
> it would warn about the php5 port, whose port directory lives in  
> the www directory, but the portfile defines the categories as "lang  
> php www". Presumably that should instead be "www php lang".
>
> Or what did you mean by "primary category"?

I meant the category that the port lives in.

Randall Wood
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