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From: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:10:24 -0500
linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:01:42PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > * Do not put new ports in X11BASE if you can avoid it.
> > * Move leaf ports to LOCALBASE if you can.
> 
> Can anyone think of a good reason (other than the hard work that
> will be involved) not to try to migrate towards this?

I can understand that large infrastructure ports like X.org and GNOME
should be moved last/at once, but why moving leaf ports only?

I suggest to move the discussion to ports@.

Bye,
Alexander.

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