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Subject: Re: Remove freshports link to pds.cgi
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> Freshports currently links to www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi on the page
> for each port. That script seems to have broken totally recently, and
> regardless the script will most likely die soon as it expects ports to
> be in CVS, which of course is not the case anymore.
> 
> So, could you remove the link from Freshports?
> 
> If anyone ever wants to fix it perhaps the link can be re-added but I
> don't see anyone fixing the script any time soon as it has to be
> rewritten from scratch, and I'm sceptical about how useful it is in
> the first place.


Done.  Let me know if someone recodes that.

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Dan Langille - http://langille.org