On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:55, Chris Pickel wrote:
Personally, I would like to see an "Portdirs" (or some such) file
added to ports/, containing a list of dirs to search for for
portfiles. The current one would be:
aqua/*
archivers/*
audio/*
...
zope/*
and yours would be equivalent to:
a/*/*
b/*/*
c/*/*
...
z/*/*
I think the default should be "*/*" for backwards compatibility,
but a Portlist of "*" would provide a prefix-less repository as
alluded to later in the thread.
What this buys us is:
* We can set up deeper hierarchies; there are plenty of python,
perl, &c. ports that are basically "a textproc port for python" and
these could be in e.g. "python/textproc".
* We can exclude, say "groups" and put the PortGroup files there,
allowing us to sync the PortGroups with the ports tree.
* Users have flexibility to determine their own organization
scheme for their personal repositories, including the prefix-less "*".
I'm bringing this up because I think it's a more flexible
modification; I don't personally see the need to change the port
hierarchy to alphabetical organization. A GUI tool can organize the
tree however's appropriate, and when I want to cd to a port's
directory, `cd */mpd` works fine if I don't remember it's 'audio'.
Under your scheme I'd just switch to `cd **/mpd`.
I don't think anybody needs this level of customization. I don't
think the current layout of the dports dir is broken, so I wouldn't
change it.
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