Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:17:24 +0100 From: Rusmir Dusko <nemysis@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r347539 - in head: biology/genpak biology/rasmol cad/chipmunk databases/typhoon databases/xmbase-grok devel/asl devel/flick devel/happydoc devel/ixlib devel/p5-Penguin-Easy editors/axe ... Message-ID: <20140327151724.2351a41e@nemysis3now> In-Reply-To: <53342D12.5060600@marino.st> References: <201403082226.s28MQMtI079354@svn.freebsd.org> <20140327111602.GA57802@FreeBSD.org> <20140327125909.6b102c8d@nemysis3now> <20140327125136.GC93483@FreeBSD.org> <5334201D.8060704@marino.st> <20140327131819.GE93483@FreeBSD.org> <53342633.2090409@marino.st> <20140327134531.GA16245@FreeBSD.org> <53342D12.5060600@marino.st>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:52:18 +0100 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote: > On 3/27/2014 14:45, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > I am acknowledging this fact; I just don't see a point of removing ports > > that build and package fine just because they are unmaintained. I am not > > saying that all of those ports are useful for me, but once in a while I'm > > faced with the fact that port I need right now was deprecated and removed > > for no real reason. I don't like that. > > Well, one good reason would be if the port is not staged. I got the > idea that you expect random committers to stage the remaining ports, > maintained or not. > > I think it's perfectly legitimate to look at an unmaintained port that > needs staging and say, "You know what? it's not worth it, nobody cares > about it, just set it to deprecate and kill it. Why should *I* care > about this port if nobody else in 12 years has cared about it. Ok this is good reason I now look to stage all deprecated games. But FreeBSD not have all enough time in so short time to stage all ports, this need minimum one Year for all. > Since most of your argument is about how these ports are useful to you, > I'd recommend that you review the "deprecated" post on a month basis and > claim the deprecated ports that you care about. If you don't, you > really don't have that much room to complain I think. > > JOhn And for deprecate is better to use one month not only two weeks, this have I used for my ports. -- Best regards, Rusmir Dusko
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