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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:10:45 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        yanefbsd@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dead projects in ports tree
Message-ID:  <49a9eea5.Ke%2BY8TkWIWKHBRfY%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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Garrett Cooper <gmail.com!yanefbsd@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

>     Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be
> marked deprecated and removed ...
>
> multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
> no releases in the past 3 years

This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :)

While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port,
the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just
as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need
to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful.



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