From: David Snyder (dasnyderxyahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 01:42:48 CST

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Jolan Luff wrote,
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:26:03PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
>>> Marc Espie <espienerim.net> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>> > I don't have a firm opinion, one way or the other.
>>>> > Having HOMEPAGE around is useful.
>>>> > having another field in INDEX makes it even longer.
>>
>>>
>>> I have at one time or the other used various fields of INDEX when
>>> retrieving information, but I can't remember ever thinking "damn,
>>> I wish the home page was there, too".
>
>
> I think it's more relevant than "Index". Index is only really relevant
> to me if it's in the x11 category and I don't have x11 installed,
> otherwise it's just virtual categories in the ports tree that have no
> bearing on my use of them. Whereas HOMEPAGE might have screenshots or
> something so I can get a feel of what Mozilla looks like before I decide
> to compile it for a couple hours.
Gentlemen,

I would like to echo and reinforce Jolan's remarks as regards the
HOMEPAGE giving you a pointer to somewhere I (and other users) can get a
'feel' for a port before installing it. This was the primary reason
that I wrote the patch to bsd.port.mk and port/Makefile. Too many times
I've done a 'make search {key,name}=<something>' and the result came up
with a terse and, frankly, unhelpful INFO message. With the HOMEPAGE
listed, I can immediately go to the homepage of the port (if there is
one) to get a better understanding of the port without tearing apart the
port's Makefile in order to get the same info. I hope these remarks
aren't out-of-line, but I feel the payoff for a user vs. the marginal
increase in INDEX size (~67K increase) is a good tradeoff.

David

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