From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 27 20: 2:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B649837B71B; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1S40Ji16978; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:00:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00bb01c0a13b$55f277b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: , "Jordan Hubbard" Cc: , , , References: <20010226232552.H767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu><20010227101131C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com><15004.3067.574082.950796@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010227143851C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:02:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Nate Williams > Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:20:11 -0700 (MST) > > > Actually, a number of people have stated that they want to 'break' > > things for 3.X (ie; actively removing 3.X support from existing ports). > > Well, in those cases I guess our hapless user is simply screwed. > Let's just hope he doesn't need to run any of the applications > maintained by such people. And of course, let's not all forget that even though the ports may not build from the ports tree, they can still fetch (dated) packages from ftp.freebsd.org if they desperately need to install an app whose port was rendered non-functional under 3.x -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message