Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:05:31 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Alpha/AXP ports Message-ID: <075CA6AC-D313-4A57-8450-F1BEAF4892B8@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110329091110.GB53262@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20110329091110.GB53262@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Mar 29, 2011, at 04:11 , Peter Jeremy wrote: > I recently happened to notice that lang/compaq-cc is still present > in the ports tree, although it's only for alpha. It can presumably > be deleted. Most likely, yes. Unless there are dependent ports which also need to = be burned away. > That triggered me to have a closer look through the ports tree. > Whilst there aren't any other alpha-only ports, there are a number of > other ports that mention alpha in ONLY_FOR_ARCHS or in conditional > make code. A complete list follows. How should this be handled? It > seems silly to submit a massive number of PRs. Certainly one PR per port is not the way to go. If I were to do this = (and, no I'm not volunteering ;) I'd (a) get approval from portmgr@ to = forcibly remove alpha/axp support from the tree and then (b) simply = check out all the relevant ports below, break out the Danish Axe, and do = a single "byebye, Alpha" commit. However, there's no real defined policy on purging truly dead "stuff" (a = _similar_ example would be hunting down anything for OSVERSION <=3D = 699999 since we have the 6_EOL tag). -aDe
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