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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:00:44 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        Satoshi Taoka <taoka@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine3 Makefile ports/mail/pine3/files Makefile ports/mail/pine3/patches patch-aa patch-ac patch-af patch-al ports/mail/pine3/scripts configure
Message-ID:  <20000221230044.A65080@luna.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002212221590.19049-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:25:15PM -0500
References:  <200002211734.JAA03348@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002212221590.19049-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 at 22:25:15 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Satoshi Taoka wrote:
> 
> > taoka       2000/02/21 09:34:05 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     mail/pine3           Makefile 
> >     mail/pine3/files     Makefile 
> >     mail/pine3/patches   patch-aa patch-ac patch-af patch-al 
> >     mail/pine3/scripts   configure 
> 
> I better start off revealing my prejudice, which is that I think most
> of the versioned ports should not be there.  The reasoning for this
> port completely escapes me, though.  All the versions of pine past
> 3.96 are perfectly upwards compatible with 3.96, so I can see
> absolutely no reason whatsoever for having this port around.

I have to agree.  I don't see any real reason to keep this one around
when there's no reason not to use pine4 (not counting mutt, that is ;-)

> If this port is justified, look forward to 13,000 versions of emacs
> next.

When was the last time you looked in /usr/ports/editors?  I think we
broke the 13,000 emacs ports milestone sometime last summer ;-)

- jim

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