Friday, November 01, 2019

Is there an easier way to browse ports?

My current workflow looks something like this:

$ cd /usr/ports
$ make print-index | less
I search and scroll through and find something interesting such as
opensonic.
I read the Info: game based on the Sonic the Hedgehog universe
^Z
$ cat games/opensonic/pkg/DESCR # I can't get make describe to work
I read more about it.
I google opensonic for screenshots.
$ pkg_add opensonic
$ opensonic
$ fg

Ideally I would like a graphical ports browser with name, screenshots, and
description that I can scroll and search through. Curation would be nice:
ports suggestions, popular ports, dev team ports picks, etc.

-alfred

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