Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:52:18 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Rusmir Dusko <nemysis@FreeBSD.org>, Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r347539 - in head: biology/genpak biology/rasmol cad/chipmunk databases/typhoon databases/xmbase-grok devel/asl devel/flick devel/happydoc devel/ixlib devel/p5-Penguin-Easy editors/axe ... Message-ID: <53342D12.5060600@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20140327134531.GA16245@FreeBSD.org> References: <201403082226.s28MQMtI079354@svn.freebsd.org> <20140327111602.GA57802@FreeBSD.org> <20140327125909.6b102c8d@nemysis3now> <20140327125136.GC93483@FreeBSD.org> <5334201D.8060704@marino.st> <20140327131819.GE93483@FreeBSD.org> <53342633.2090409@marino.st> <20140327134531.GA16245@FreeBSD.org>
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On 3/27/2014 14:45, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > I am acknowledging this fact; I just don't see a point of removing ports > that build and package fine just because they are unmaintained. I am not > saying that all of those ports are useful for me, but once in a while I'm > faced with the fact that port I need right now was deprecated and removed > for no real reason. I don't like that. Well, one good reason would be if the port is not staged. I got the idea that you expect random committers to stage the remaining ports, maintained or not. I think it's perfectly legitimate to look at an unmaintained port that needs staging and say, "You know what? it's not worth it, nobody cares about it, just set it to deprecate and kill it. Why should *I* care about this port if nobody else in 12 years has cared about it. Since most of your argument is about how these ports are useful to you, I'd recommend that you review the "deprecated" post on a month basis and claim the deprecated ports that you care about. If you don't, you really don't have that much room to complain I think. JOhn
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