It's possible to do that now using symbolic links and building a 'alpha'
subtree under pkgsrc.  It's not something I think the pkgsrc team should
do, nor would I use it, but it is certainly not a hard thing to do.



Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering that it would be nicer if package sources are separated
> not by category but alphabet, initial of each ${PKGNAME}, like
> 
>   /usr/pkgsrc/0/0verkill
>   /usr/pkgsrc/0/6to4
>   :
>   /usr/pkgsrc/A/AiCa
>   :
>   /usr/pkgsrc/a/a2ps
>   /usr/pkgsrc/a/abacus
>   :
> 
> This way is good in some points:
> 
>   - easier to find a package source directory
>   - more flexible to classify a package into multiple categories
>   - more flexible to create/delete categories
>   - can save time for pkg-managers to decide the category a package
>     belongs to
> 
> Category is used for browsing packages, that is, one already has a
> certain purpose and she/he looks for packages which are for her/his
> purpose. To fullfill such a case, it's sufficient to put a text (or
> html) file in which packages are sorted by category, like
> 
>   I18N:
>     emacs
>     mozilla
>     :
>   XML:
>     PyXML
>     XML-Xerces
>     XmHTML
>     :
>   Language:
>     STk
>     egcs
>     :
> 
> It's easy and seems better to add 'COMMENT' to this file.
> 
> I've not thought the feasibility, but I guess this is not impossible.
> 
> Regards,
> Masao
> 
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