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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:40:45 +0300
From:      "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" <dima@Chg.RU>
To:        Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Afterstep port
Message-ID:  <20001114234045.B87648@netserv1.chg.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3A11A425.584AA377@bellsouth.net>; from lauasanf@bellsouth.net on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:44:21PM -0600
References:  <20001114114037.A46808@hub.freebsd.org> <3A11A425.584AA377@bellsouth.net>

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On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:44:21PM -0600, Drew Sanford wrote:
> Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Is there any sense to keep x11-wm/afterstep port?
> > It represents an old 1.0 version, while the latest stable version is 1.8.4
> > (afterstep-stable port).
> > 
> > If there will be no objections, I propose to remove x11-wm/afterstep
> > and to repo-copy afterstep-stable -> afterstep.
> 
> I personally think this is a bad idea, unless you plan to keep an
> afterstep 1.0 port somewhere. Its a simple, lightweight, very functional
> manager. Not being able to simply type 'make install' to add it to a new
> machine would severely increase the amount of typing I have to do to set
> up a new machine:)
> 

Probably x11-wm/flwm is your friend.

I think it is unreasonable to keep two stable versions of the same
program in ports tree.


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