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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:31:36 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Ashish_Shukla_=E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7_?=, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles
Message-ID:  <AEAC14F0-5F2D-462B-94A9-0F859F87E30A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081209181354.GB29817@hades.panopticon>
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On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:

> It's not like your proposal is bad, ports instantaneously tracking
> upstream changes and not needing maintainers would really be cool,
> but unfortunately that's practically impossible.

Some software projects are switching over to this kind of a model,  
like glibc.
-Garrett



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