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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:21:07 +0200
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From: Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: status of FreeBSD ports you maintain as of 20090705
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2009/8/4 Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>:
> Diego Depaoli wrote:
>> There are too many ports and too few people who care them.
>> IMHO the options are:
>> - decrease the number of ports
> We trim dead/useless ports all the time.
>> - increase the number of =A0volunteers/committers/testers...
> This is the only valid answer for FreeBSD.
How? I think your following comment (even smiled) isn't the right
starting point.

>> - switch to a multi-level solution (e.g. Archlinux).
> In DiegoBSD you should feel free to use any solution you think is
> useful. :)
Please look at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/134443
Ok, I agree,  is an useless port, but 3 months without further notices
are enough to demotivate any volunteer.

Cheers
--=20
Diego Depaoli