From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 20 8:42:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3147E37B421 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA17986; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:42:12 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda17980; Sat Apr 20 08:41:54 2002 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g3KFfnA23994; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdZ23974; Sat Apr 20 08:41:39 2002 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g3KFfZX33329; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204201541.g3KFfZX33329@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdf33307; Sat Apr 20 08:41:03 2002 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jgreco@ns.sol.net Subject: Re: removal of QT1/KDE1 ports In-Reply-To: Message from Erich Zigler of "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:32:05 CDT." <20020420153215.3082B37B427@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 08:41:03 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20020420153215.3082B37B427@hub.freebsd.org>, Erich Zigler writes: > On Saturday 20 April 2002 05:45 am, you wrote: > > > I don't agree at all. How about people using older hardware? Those > > computers, e.g. old laptops, can run KDE1 just fine, but don't have the > > power to run KDE[23]. Or shall we assume that only fast hardware is > > supported? Please, don't turn FreeBSD into a kind of RedHat thing. > > So, we're supposed to let the ports system grow bloated with old archaeic > packages? That probably not even 1% of the userbase will use? This reminds me, now that tripwire 2.3.1 has been in the tree for a few months, I'd like to remove the tripwire 1.2 and 1.3.1 ports. Any objections? Cheers, Phone: 250-387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, CITS Ministry of Management Services Province of BC FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message