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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
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Subject: Re: Who was the mental genius
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On Fri 2014-06-06 17:17:40 UTC+0200, Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> Yes it would have been a good idea to give a warning to the user about
> the fact that the ports tree won't be support long on after EOL of
> 8.3, given the ports tree will break again quite soon after EOL of 8.4
> I should think about adding such a message right now (btw this is not

Is it viable to add an EOL message to portsnap(8)?