[RFC] New ports category "fs"
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:09:09 UTC
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 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - for an encoding-agnostic world /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments