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Subject: Re: staging
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On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:18:56 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Is there a way to find out if a port is being used?  Some of my ports
> are pretty old.  No point in upgrading them if no one is using them.

You can deprecate a port with an expiration date.  If nobody shows up
before that date you can delete the port.  And if somebody shows up
after that it can still be restored.

DEPRECATED=		yes
EXPIRATION_DATE=	YYYY-MM-DD