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To: Simon L.Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with
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Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> Hello
>
> On the FreeBSD website we have the ports pages at
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ which are inferior in most ways to
> FreshPorts [1], so I would propose that we retire the FreeBSD ports
> web pages and just direct people at FreshPorts instead.  Does anybody
> have any strong objections to this? [...]

FreshPorts is surely one of the most useful ports resources around 
there. The problem I have with making it the `official' reference is 
that it is controlled by a third party (and not the FreeBSD Project), so 
the influence we have on it are limited. Even if it is considered 
superior to the official site, I would vote for adding a link to it, but 
still having something official on FreeBSD controlled servers. We can 
add a link to the FreshPorts page to every port page, should this 
considered useful, but we should make clear that we are linking to a 
third party site with a possibly different publishing policy.

-Oliver