Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:16:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> To: ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion Message-ID: <1397611014.25264.YahooMailBasic@web140903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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-------------------------------------------- On Sun, 4/13/14, Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> wrote: Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 11:45 AM =20 =A0=20 =A0 On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny =A0 wrote: =20 =A0 >>> On this list I see cfv, which I've used for =A0 years, marked just because =A0 >>> it's =A0 >>> not maintained. It works great, it needs no =A0 changes.=20 =20 =20 =A0 > I'm not officially a maintainer on any ports for a few =A0 reasons. I have other=20 =A0 > areas where I consider spending my time more valuable, =A0 but if I have to waste=20 =A0 > it on port maintenance, I'll try to do so in the most =A0 efficient way.=20 =A0=20 =A0 Well, you basically said you're more important than anybody =A0 that =A0 regularly reads this list, so good luck with that tact. =A0 .......................................................................= ................I regularly ..........................................................................= ..............read this list ..........................................................................= ...............and also ..........................................................................= ............have not the ..........................................................................= .........experience or time =A0 So you should become a committer. =A0=20 =A0 Try submitting the patches, including staging and assuming =A0 maintainership (and then honestly be the maintainer).=A0 =A0=20 =A0 Staging is not an opt-in feature so as =A0 harsh as it is to =A0 say =A0=20 =A0 This indicates that you haven't been paying attention.=A0 =A0=20 =A0It's not a goal to have the most =A0 ports possible;=20 =A0=20 ...............................................Maybe take changes to a=20 subsection of the forum? I've posted there... =20 A new subsection group: ports X11... WWW... DEVEL... maybe one DELETIONS ( a sticky or subsection) and/or PENDING DELETIONS ... and/or and deleted ports could be bought back again for those who find them useful, even if someone was reading about a years-ago removal. =20 Pardiff (diffp ) comes to mind (just removed this week) I use the diffp binary for diffing ports-to-upgrade pipe results between days (diffp portlist.MON portlist.TUE) I suppose mergemaster.sh could even be updated to be more similar to the output of diffp. ..... gfontview...=20 ... =20 Just puttting that idea onto the forum expansion, which maybe could solve problems quicker than PR's. For instance, as of now, textproc/po4a x11/roxterm devel/dconf =20 all fail to build "failed to load exteral entity "http://docbook.sourcefor= ge.net/release/ xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"=A0 " =20 and maybe if the forum had been expanded, threads (dconf po4a roxterm) would have been started/updated explaining the fix, if anyone knew it.=20 =20 ............................................... Lost post en route to the list [ addressee maybe incomplete] Re-sending from the SENT folder.=20 Sorry for the delay...
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