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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:12:26 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysutils/linux-[f10-]procps (was: [cfr] patch to clean up old Linux ports)
Message-ID:  <513E48BA.4090001@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130311211022.0000342a@unknown>
References:  <513A0C04.8090907@freebsd.org> <20130309121625.00004279@unknown> <513BA4AE.4000802@freebsd.org> <20130309233148.00004ad1@unknown> <513DA84C.20102@freebsd.org> <20130311211022.0000342a@unknown>

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On 11-03-2013 21:10, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:47:56 +0100
> René Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I also noted PR ports/169988 containing a patch to update
>> sysutils/linux-procps to a Fedora 10 version, we might apply that
>> instead of just deleting it.
> Decide yourself:
>  - Does something depend upon this which still exists after the fc4
>    ports are deleted?
No, since sysutils/linux-procps is scheduled to be deleted.
>  - Does it provide something (if updated) which is not available in
>    FreeBSD?
It provides these binaries not in the FreeBSD base:
free, pmap, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, tload

> If the answer to both is "no", we should delete.
>
So it depends on the usefulness of the above binaries.

Rene



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