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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:54:08 +0000
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To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 199333] graphics/pdf2svg UNBREAK - add MASTER_SITES
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Chris Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to John Marino from comment #5)
> why not:
> 
> 1) because the premise of the request was he was hosting the distfile which
> is not the case. 
> 
> 2) Chris has picking up so many ports (including ports that require code
> fixing) I'm personally starting to doubt he can maintain them all.
I'm not requesting/maintaing more than I can manage.
Should I find my list growing beyond my ability to give them the
attention they deserve/require, I can/will give them back to ports@ :)
> 
> It was also a boilerplate request, I just scanned about saw about 10 other
> nearly identical PRs.  I am skeptical that he actually uses all the ports he
> says he does.  This one is pretty interesting but others are pretty obscure.
In going through the list, I found ports that while *seemingly*
somewhat obscure, appeared to have value. To *me* anyway.
> 
> There's sort of a tug-of-war going on with Chris.  Obviously many ports are
> worth saving, but there are many more ports that are very old and apparently
> unused and people just want to die a natural death and Chris has been saving
> those too (I think just for the sake of saving them, e.g. "who knows,
> somebody might need this later)".
Downloads from my site (thus far) indicate [a] reasonable amount
usage.
> 
> anyway, the main answer to your question is #1, the rest is just background.
> I assumed you wanted to maintain it at first for a reason.

I have no desire to take a port from anyone that is a Maintainer. But
after a bit of investigation, those that I substituted myself for,
appeared to have been using distcache for some time -- often for more than
a year.
As to "boilerplate"; I had only a small window to work from the day I
investigated those ports, so recycled much of the dialog, in an effort
to do the necessary preliminary work, for them (save time).

All the best.

--Chris

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