Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:55:56 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death Message-ID: <20110426225556.GF38579@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20110426181554.6ddd9393@seibercom.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> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4DB73EFD.1070502@FreeBSD.org> <20110426181554.6ddd9393@seibercom.net>
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On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 15:15:54 PDT Jerry wrote: > >If no one steps up claiming to need the port, then good riddance. If on >the other hand a user claims a valid use of the port, let them take >responsibility for it or find someone who will. Leaving intact ports >that either don't build, cannot be fetched, etcetera does not really >make a lot of sense. No disagreement here. Just now I ran a query on freshports and found almost 5000 ports with maintainer=ports@FreeBSD.org. That's way too many! My search for "popularity" metrics is intended to point me, as a maintainer, to ports I might want to adopt now, rather than wait for someone to complain about them. Everything *I* use is already maintained, so I've moved on to looking for things other people might need. But I don't want to waste my time on something that nobody uses. :)
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