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Date:      Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:01:38 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        "Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who is behind the ports?
Message-ID:  <m3irgugx4d.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <e6575a30612010634v262ff562m75ac682c481667aa@mail.gmail.com> (Charles A. Landemaine's message of "Fri\, 1 Dec 2006 11\:34\:54 -0300")
References:  <e6575a30612010634v262ff562m75ac682c481667aa@mail.gmail.com>

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"Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there some sort of automation creating so many ports?

Just humonguous amounts of
- manpower
- time to let things ripe

A good porter will create a port that requires little maintentance when
updating and little support effort -- after all, the port isn't the
software itself, just machine-readable build and install instructions.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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