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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:01:26 +0100
From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
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Subject: Re: Not much reason to have */R-cran-* ports
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Hello,

Eugene wrote:
> It is a bit funny you are bothered on 250 R-cran-* ports when we
> have 1908 p5-* ports, 964 py-* ports, 600 rubygem-* ports and
> 280 hs-* ports in the single ports/devel category.

This is an important point. Every toolchain does its own dependency
tracking etc. So maybe it's time to get those folks together
and discuss a common subset so that systems can maintain that
and not 5-10 seperate systems.

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