From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 17:44:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from apollo.emma.line.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056FE106567E; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:44:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandree@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E4B23CF4F; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E5D216C.6070801@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:44:12 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110805 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@FreeBSD.org References: <201108300823.p7U8NIfD038098@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E5CC44C.3070604@FreeBSD.org> <20110830111152.GF28186@home.opsec.eu> <4E5CD28A.1080809@FreeBSD.org> <20110830122726.GG28186@home.opsec.eu> <4E5D0856.8080505@FreeBSD.org> <20110830163933.GC17573@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chris Rees Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:44:15 -0000 Am 30.08.2011 19:29, schrieb Chris Rees: > On 30 August 2011 17:39, Mark Linimon wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:57:10PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >>> How about if we added a new tag "OBSOLESCENT" or so that permits >>> building the software only if it's already installed but refuses new >>> installations? >> >> Right now if you set DEPRECATED you'll get a warning. Shouldn't >> that be sufficient without introducing a new mechanism that enforces >> a policy? > > +1 > > I agree-- isn't that what DEPRECATED is for?? It only warns, it does not prevent fresh installs on systems that don't have the same port/package already installed.