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Re: new site for my ports is up
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:29:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
- References: <017d01c16f26$f05cf9b0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 04:15:56PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>My mail is currently broken inbound... so I'm replying from the list
>archives..
>
>===
>Ah! Sorry about that.
>
>The idea of putting things under categories was something that I
>originally proposed but I wasn't entirely sure that it was ok.
>
>I wonder if we shouldn't just dispense with any hierarchy at all and put
>all of the packages in their own subdirectory, like ftp.gnu.org?
>
>cgf
>===
>
>A flat structure may not scale efficiently on some systems. I was (for
>obvious reasons I hope) against a category based directory structure,
>but pretty much anything else should be fine :].
>
>As for putting multiple pacakges in the same dir - yes thats good but
>let me get setup.hint subsumed into the package file first...
No. No multiple packages in the same directory. Every package gets
their own directory.
cgf
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