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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2019 12:28:26 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r514146 - in head: . Mk
Message-ID:  <201910091228.x99CSQou023687@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: bapt
Date: Wed Oct  9 12:28:26 2019
New Revision: 514146
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/514146

Log:
  Remove the ipv6 virtual category
  
  in 2019 the norm is for applications to support both v4 and v6 version of the ip
  stack. Furthermore, the ipv6 category was clearly not consistently spread over
  the ports tree defeating the goal of the category.

Modified:
  head/CHANGES
  head/Mk/bsd.port.mk

Modified: head/CHANGES
==============================================================================
--- head/CHANGES	Wed Oct  9 12:23:49 2019	(r514145)
+++ head/CHANGES	Wed Oct  9 12:28:26 2019	(r514146)
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ in the release notes and/or placed into UPDATING.
 
 All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.
 
+20191009:
+AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org
+
+  The ipv6 virtual category is gone, it does not make sense anymore in 2019
+  where the norm in applications is to have support both ipv4 and ipv6.
+  
 20191001:
 AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org
 

Modified: head/Mk/bsd.port.mk
==============================================================================
--- head/Mk/bsd.port.mk	Wed Oct  9 12:23:49 2019	(r514145)
+++ head/Mk/bsd.port.mk	Wed Oct  9 12:28:26 2019	(r514146)
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ VALID_CATEGORIES+= accessibility afterstep arabic arch
 	benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases \
 	deskutils devel docs dns editors elisp emulators enlightenment finance french ftp \
 	games geography german gnome gnustep graphics hamradio haskell hebrew hungarian \
-	ipv6 irc japanese java kde ${_KDE_CATEGORIES_SUPPORTED} kld korean lang linux lisp \
+	irc japanese java kde ${_KDE_CATEGORIES_SUPPORTED} kld korean lang linux lisp \
 	mail mate math mbone misc multimedia net net-im net-mgmt net-p2p net-vpn news \
 	palm parallel pear perl5 plan9 polish portuguese ports-mgmt \
 	print python ruby rubygems russian \



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