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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:26:20PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
> > Is there a standard policy for when a port's source code should be included in
> > the ports tree instead of in a separate distfile which is fetched on demand?
> 
> I actually do not know if there is a codified policy, but I have two
> original works in the ports tree so I'll share my thought process.
> 
> The first criterion I used was, "Is it directly related to FreeBSD,
> and only FreeBSD?"

There's never been a discussion of a policy IIRC.  I suppose that if
something is of significant size but is FreeBSD-only, it might be a
candidate for our (underused) projects/ repo.

mcl