Re: [RFC] New ports category "fs"

From: Olivier Certner <olce_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:09:58 UTC
Hi Robert,

I have a few remarks/questions.

The move implemented two different operations at once:
1. Grouping sysutils/fusefs-*, and removing the 'fusefs-' port prefix.
2. Grouping all filesystems-related ports.

Old sysutils/fusefs-* ports now do not have the 'fusefs-' prefix, but the packages produced from them still have.  Isn't that slightly confusing?

That's maybe a non-existent case, but how would we handle a native driver vs. a FUSE implementation in ports, now that the latter are not prefixed?

Is there a plan to tag the old sysutils/fusefs-* ports with, e.g., some 'fusefs' virtual category?  That could come in handy when listing which FUSE filesystems are available (in particular with 'make search cat=fusefs'), even if there are other, though less user-friendly, ways to obtain this list.

Thanks and regards.

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Olivier Certner