Folder Hierarchy for Archives

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 16:20, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> Presently archives are placed into directories following this structure:
> OS, Arch, Port.
> 
> As you can imagine, this means that each architecture houses nearly all ports immediately inside of its directory.

/opt/local/var/macports/software also contains all ports directly, not in any additional subdirectories.


> Would it be advisable to modify the archive code to operate using this structure instead:
> OS, Arch, Category, Port.

What advantage do you see this providing?