> Pardon my extreme reply, but "ick".  I much prefer it as it is now.
> If you want to do that, have an "alldir" target in the Makefile in
> /usr/pkgsrc as follows:
> 
> alldir:
> 	for dir in [a-z]*; do { \
> 	    for name in $$dir/*; do { \
> 		case $$name in \
> 		$$dir/\*) \
> 		    break \
> 		    ;; \
> 		$$dir/Makefile|$$dir/CVS) \
> 		    : \
> 		    ;; \
> 		*) \
> 		    init=`expr $$name : '.*/\(.\).*'`; \
> 		    link=`basename $$name`; \
> 		    mkdir -p ALL/$$init; \
> 		    ln -s ../../$$dir/$$link ALL/$init; \
> 		    ;; \
> 		esac; \
> 	    } done; \
> 	} done
> 
> I much prefer going into /usr/src/pkgsrc/x11 and browsing around (and I
> don't want to have to start a browser to be able to do that).

Thanks for an elaborate code, but I knew I did like this. I guess you
are confusing what is possible, what you prefer to, and what is
better.

I know that my proposal costs too much and is hardly realized. I
posted this in the hope that this will be read and considered by those
who will have to recreate whole pkgsrc tree in the future --- after
the World War III. 8-)

Bye,
Masao

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