Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes: > * On 2021-01-06 at 10:26 GMT, Frederic Fauberteau wrote: > >> Personally, I would favours the converters directory. Is there any >> objection not to move fonts/bdftopcf to converters/bdftopcf? > > Moving directories is not recommended. For one you'll break upgrades > via pkgin, as it will no longer consider them to be the same package. > This will eventually be supported via PREV_PKGPATH but isn't yet. > > Personally I find categories to be largely irrelevant, and simply run > "ls -d */foo*" when I want to find a package, or something like > "git grep bin/foo -- '*/PLIST*' when searching for which package > provides a particular binary. Both return in under a second. Strongly agreed on both counts. I find categories useful only in doing things like "read the DESCR in every package in geography to find out about a package I might want to run but right now don't even know that it exists". I've been doing almost jperkin's ls example for years. My variant ls -ld */*foo*
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