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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:14:07 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: irc/xchat: limit icon blinking time
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgneJR0ObpPTnX0EX7T82cbYRA5gq_66_qYAeqOaQqUQGw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22 June 2012 18:16, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure where you got that idea. Historically it's been pretty
> common for there to be a version of something in ports where upstream
> development has stalled (or outright died), but an active maintainer
> keeps the thing alive with patches. Requiring a maintainer to do what
> you're suggesting seems a very high, and altogether unnecessary burden.

I don't oppose build patches for FreeBSD when the program otherwise
works, but the ports collection is not a software development
repository.


-- 
Eitan Adler



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