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On 8/13/2014 13:40, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:44:59PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
>> On 8/12/2014 21:39, Cy Schubert wrote:
>>> Author: cy
>>> Date: Tue Aug 12 19:39:33 2014
>>> New Revision: 364739
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/364739
>>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r364739/
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Reintroduce syslog-ng-devel for 3.6.0alpha2.
>>>   
>>>   Submitted by:	Peter Czanik <peter.czanik@balabit.com> (syslog-ng upline)
>>
>>
>> Do Ports really need alpha quality -devel ports in the collection?
>>
>> If it were up to me I'd purge 90% of our -devel ports.  I tried to start
>> a conversation about a policy for these with portmgr, but as usual, only
>> one person responded.  I'd still like to have that conversation though.
>>  This -devel port trend is disturbing.
>>
> 
> If it were up to me I'd purge 95% of the ports tree, because I use less
> than 5% of it. But hey, there are other people with other needs, so I am
> perfectly happy with the size of the tree.

Likewise, I'm perfectly happy with the air quality in Beijing because I
don't have to breath that air.
(straw man: this wasn't tree size, it was about content quality and
creating standards)