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On Mar 11, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Sergei Kolobov wrote:

> I think we could first add NO_LATEST_LINK to the cfengine port
> so users can pkg_add -r cfengine to get the latest version
> and then mark the port as DEPRECATED with some date - say 3 or 6 months
> in the future.
>
> Any thoughts, objections?
> Is cfengine 1.x still in use somewhere?

Sorry for the delay in response. This sounds like a good plan, I'm not 
aware of very many 1.x installations out there, those that are out 
there are probably just running and not doing many new installs anyway.


--Paul