On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Jakob Gillich <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that the current folder structure is a mess. There is a severe > lack of structure, often there are further category-folders in a folder > with packages (like misc/, misc/themes/). > > FreeBSD has categories at the root level, everything below are packages: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html > <https://freshports.org/categories.php> > > Maybe this model could work for us, too? > That has 5338 packages in the devel/ folder. I don't think it works. Gentoo has a tighter category tree, but they too have run into the 1000 files limit: https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/tree/master/dev-haskell I'm thinking haskell/<2-letter prefix> is the way to go, if we needed a separate file for each package. But the current giant-file system is fine (other than that GitHub doesn't index it). -- Mathnerd314
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