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New ideas

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  • Adding and populating CONFLICTS
  • Adding Makefile and pkg-plist to the mix
  • DEPENDS – direct or recursive?
  • Not all ports have packages
  • Fetch, Patch, & Extract dependencies and Uses
  • What ports are dependant upon this port?
  • make showconfig + OPTIONSFILE
  • Configuration options – showconfig
  • Master/slave relationships
  • Open Sourcing FreshPorts
  • How much is that repo in the window?
  • Stripping HTML from announcements
  • Flagging commits on FreshPorts
  • Finding another way to parse URLs
  • Commit drill downs
  • All commits under a point in the tree
  • Pagination now in the Search page
  • Improving the search – pagination
  • Package names and vuxml
  • Adding stubs for listening – data driven
  • Data driven listening
  • More on Python Listen
  • Better links into CVS
  • Vote for your TOP n ports
  • Python, PostgreSQL, and LISTEN
  • MOVED & UPDATING need cache removal code
  • Link to download a port skeleton
  • Caching to disk
  • New searching features!
  • The things you learn on IRC
  • How much is that distfile in the port?
  • Commits by committer

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