On 09/16/09 22:39, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Adam Hoka wrote:I'm wondering if we have any good reason to keep subdirs for binary packages on FTP. The current foo_1970Q1/All scheme is pretty counter-intuitive from the user perspective. So, could we just use a single directory for holding the binary packages from the bulk builds?Categories exist to help judge what a package is. Why deny this help? Of course, having a decent package installer would be nice, but until then... "why?"
Because no one manually browses ftp in 21. century. We have pkg_install and lately pkgin to fulfill this. At least I think our users deserve this level of comfort.