Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:51:25 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>, marino@freebsd.org Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r364739 - in head: . sysutils sysutils/syslog-ng-devel sysutils/syslog-ng-devel/files Message-ID: <53EB513D.5080307@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20140813114000.GE26895@e-new.0x20.net> References: <53ea6d76.6eb9.5599e7c9@svn.freebsd.org> <53EA6EBB.2010802@marino.st> <20140813114000.GE26895@e-new.0x20.net>
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On 8/13/2014 13:40, Lars Engels wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:44:59PM +0200, John Marino wrote: >> On 8/12/2014 21:39, Cy Schubert wrote: >>> Author: cy >>> Date: Tue Aug 12 19:39:33 2014 >>> New Revision: 364739 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/364739 >>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r364739/ >>> >>> Log: >>> Reintroduce syslog-ng-devel for 3.6.0alpha2. >>> >>> Submitted by: Peter Czanik <peter.czanik@balabit.com> (syslog-ng upline) >> >> >> Do Ports really need alpha quality -devel ports in the collection? >> >> If it were up to me I'd purge 90% of our -devel ports. I tried to start >> a conversation about a policy for these with portmgr, but as usual, only >> one person responded. I'd still like to have that conversation though. >> This -devel port trend is disturbing. >> > > If it were up to me I'd purge 95% of the ports tree, because I use less > than 5% of it. But hey, there are other people with other needs, so I am > perfectly happy with the size of the tree. Likewise, I'm perfectly happy with the air quality in Beijing because I don't have to breath that air. (straw man: this wasn't tree size, it was about content quality and creating standards)
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