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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:51:46 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:29:07PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>===
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:51 PM
>Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
>
>
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:38:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>>My 2c on the layout - package letter based make s more sense to me.
>>>(It allows finding a package via ftp without knowing the category.)
>>
>>Are you saying that I should have a list like "A" and put ash
>>underneath that?  "B" gets binutils?  Yuck.
>
>No.  Crossed wires here.  The conversation I recall was rearranging the
>directories in the ftp site.

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

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