Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:26:48 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Simon L.Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with FreshPorts Message-ID: <C6102D40-3263-11D9-A7A8-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20041107191051.GK753@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > Hello > > On the FreeBSD website we have the ports pages at > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ which are inferior in most ways to > FreshPorts [1], so I would propose that we retire the FreeBSD ports > web pages and just direct people at FreshPorts instead. Does anybody > have any strong objections to this? [...] FreshPorts is surely one of the most useful ports resources around there. The problem I have with making it the `official' reference is that it is controlled by a third party (and not the FreeBSD Project), so the influence we have on it are limited. Even if it is considered superior to the official site, I would vote for adding a link to it, but still having something official on FreeBSD controlled servers. We can add a link to the FreshPorts page to every port page, should this considered useful, but we should make clear that we are linking to a third party site with a possibly different publishing policy. -Oliver
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