Re: [RFC] New ports category "fs"

The ports tree would benefit from having more port
categories representing meaningful fields some of
which are emergent fields.

Can we please get the portmgr@ approval for this addition?


Thank you,
Yuri






On 9/28/24 18:09, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Greetings! I have just submitted a pull request adding a new category 
> "fs" for file systems and file system utilities to the ports 
> collection. See Github for the full patch set: 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/302 If desired, I can 
> submit this as a DR or PR as well. The new category is populated with 
> some 126 ports (that's more than x11-clocks!) that look like they 
> might be file-system related. I was motivated to add this new category 
> when I noticed that many FUSE file systems were shipped as ports named 
> sysutils/fusefs-$foo, making sysutils/fusefs- a pseudo-category for 
> FUSE filesystems. If that's the (anti) pattern, why not make it 
> offical and add a true category for file system ports? Turns out there 
> are a lot more than one might think. I hope that with this move, we 
> can reduce the load on devel and sysutils (the two most popular 
> misspellings of misc) and make file-system related ports easier to 
> find. For a full list of affected ports, see the list of commits 
> attached to the pull request. If you would like to not have your port 
> moved to fs, please comment or send me an email. I would like to 
> kindly ask portmgr to discuss adding the new category and give 
> approval for me to do so. Yours, Robert Clausecker