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On FreshPorts, virtual categories have no description.
What are virtual cagtegories? Those categories that do not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree. They are only used as secondary categories, and only for search purposes.
FreshPorts can easily detect the creation of a new category, be it virtual or real (non-virtual). FreshPorts can grab the […]

Lars Engels had an idea. Why not have a place where you can download a port skeleton? You know, the files that make up a port (Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, etc).
As Lars put it:
It came to my mind when I tried out the Frenzy live cd yesterday. It does not have the iwi-firmware port […]

Last week I took the car in for an oil change. I usually wait for the work to be done, and while waiting, I head over the road to a Perkins for some breakfast. While there, I usually do a bit of coding. It is actually a good environment for this. The […]

Virtual categories are nice, but they are hard to deal with. For starters, there is no simple place to get the description for a virtual category. For a physical category, you can do this:
[dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ make -V COMMENT
System utilities
[dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $ grep “System utilities” *
Makefile: COMMENT = System utilities
[dan@polo:~/ports/sysutils] $
But for a […]

A user recently asked if we could show the size of the port/package. Getting the size of the distfiles is relatively easy. It’s in the distinfo file. For slave ports, we already know the master port, so we get the information from there.
It might also be nice to show the size of […]

I’m not very good at designing look and feel. I can do content, but not the pretty stuff. I’d like you to help out here. Please design me something better.
I have a copy of Absolute BSD and a BSDCan 2005 t-shirt for the winning entry. What I want is something that […]