Re: Base packages

[Laurent Martelli <martelli@iie.cnam.fr>]

>>>>> "Sami" == Sami Dalouche <samid@ifrance.com> writes:

  Sami> Why do not use symlinks to link base packages and keep them
  Sami> where they must be.  For example, why ppp is not in the net/
  Sami> directory w/ a simlink in base pointing to it ?

  Sami> I've another Question : Why is xpm4g in x11/ instead of libs/
  Sami> or graphics/ ?

  Sami> I think we should recreate all the directories net/ base/
  Sami> news/ mail/ ....  because there is too many packages in each
  Sami> of them and w/ the directory, we can't find exactly for what
  Sami> or what we need x package without dpkg --info.  why do not
  Sami> creating

  Sami> [...]  net/web (wwwoffle, lynx...)  net/mail (exim,smail,mutt)
  Sami> net/news (leafnode,Inn) net/ppp (ppp,pppconfig,wvdial...)
  Sami> net/otheros (samba, appletalk,linpopup) net/ftp
  Sami> (lftp,filerunner,wu-ftpd-academ,proftpd...)

I think it would be better to implement a keyword search in dselect
because anyway, some packages would belong to several directories. 

Laurent