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(not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BfnR749Tlz4dPd for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 22:03:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep33p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20200830220337.OWEK10218.viclafep33p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:03:37 +1000 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduiedrudefgedgtdegucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuuffpveftpgfvgffnuffvtfetpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemucegtddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeekieetjeeuuefhfeeguedvudeifeevudfgvedtffekhfffjeekhfdutdetheethfenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegrnhgvuhhrihhnrdhhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpihhnvghtpeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefpdhmrghilhhfrhhomhepoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqedprhgtphhtthhopeeofhhrvggvsghsugdqphhorhhtshesfhhrvggvsghsugdrohhrgheq X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.420) id 5E8A564B1941642D for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:03:36 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 07UM3X44093489 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:03:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 07UM3WG9093486 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:03:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 08:03:32 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Aggressive ports removal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <202008291154.07TBsr7L086597@repo.freebsd.org> <9a4583d9-097e-d0ba-4959-5c4d7b96b611@freebsd.org> <20200829232707.GC46173@eureka.lemis.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BfnR749Tlz4dPd X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dave@horsfall.org has no SPF policy when checking 203.38.21.97) smtp.mailfrom=dave@horsfall.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.84 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.88)[-0.885]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.85)[-0.846]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ports@freebsd.org]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[horsfall.org]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.09)[0.093]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:1221, ipnet:203.36.0.0/14, country:AU]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-ports]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[203.38.21.97:from] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 22:03:50 -0000 [ I seem to have missed the post to which this refers ] On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in >> 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence. It works >> fine, and I find it very useful. If at some time in the future it >> should no longer work with the latest and greatest iteration of the C >> programming language or ports structure, that shouldn't be a reason to >> discard it. What does "xtset" do that the following script does not? I picked it up from $JOB a couple of decades ago. /usr/local/bin/wintit: # Change window title. # # 0 means both title and icon. # 1 means icon # 2 means title # echo -n ']0;'$*'' Watch out for the embedded ESC and ^G chars, and modify as necessary for SysVile i.e. "-n" vs. "\c". And no, printf(1) didn't exist back then, and I'm too lazy to fix it now. aneurin% cat /usr/ports/x11/xtset/pkg-descr Utility to set title on an xterm. -- Dave