Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:48:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/cvsup-bin Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/net/cvsupd-bin Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist Message-ID: <200107221148.f6MBmVg03267@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org> of "Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:02:57 PDT." <200107211902.f6LJ2vF38362@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> jdp 2001/07/21 12:02:57 PDT
>
> Removed files:
> net/cvsup-bin Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr
> pkg-plist
> net/cvsupd-bin Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr
> pkg-plist
> Log:
> Remove the cvsup-bin and cvsupd-bin ports. They are both hard to
> maintain and redundant. They are hard to maintain because binaries
> are for all practical purposes impossible to patch. They are
> redundant because the cvsup and cvsup-devel packages have the same
> functionality. Note that these packages are now stand-alone in
> the sense that they do not depend on any Modula-3 ports. That
> eliminates the original rationale for the cvsup-bin and cvsupd-bin
> ports.
>
> I have fixed all ports which used to depend on cvsup-bin or cvsupd-bin
> so that they now depend on the cvsup port.
I don't think I understand -- the libm3 dependencies are still there
in the cvsup Makefile (which is used by cvsup-devel)...
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