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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:34:00 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com
Subject:   Re: port unmaintained since 2005? drop it? misc/gpt*
Message-ID:  <20120612023400.GA86848@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <4FD58604.40806@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4FD4FF32.1060402@FreeBSD.org> <4fd5acfa.idvDPcWpdoIIkuEZ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4FD58604.40806@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:45:40AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On 6/11/12 4:31 AM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Dunno what (if anything) they are currently good for, but it seems
> > that, at a minimum, the PORTVERSION and/or MASTER_SITES -- and the
> > pkg-descr -- need to be updated.
> They still don't build.
> And, they still aren't need by anything in ports tree (again, globus was=
=20
> deleted from ports tree in 2008)
>=20
> anyone want to maintain them?  I'll tag your name on the ports for you.

As the person who originally ported and committed them, I say they should
be taken out and shot.  They were unmaintainable from the start without
a significant number of users to drive the upstream to stop making bad
decisions.

-- Brooks

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