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Date:      Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:12:09 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: saving a few ports from death
Message-ID:  <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net>
References:  <ip53jn$92d$1@dough.gmane.org> <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net>

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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:24 -0700
Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> articulated:

> It's a bit of a leap to assume that a program that's popular on Linux
> will be as popular on BSD, but it's the best data we have for the time
> being.

If you want to definitively ascertain the popularity of an application,
just remove it from the ports structure and see how many users complain.

-- 
Jerry ✌
jerry+ports@seibercom.net

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