Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:09:51 -0500 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent ports removal Message-ID: <20111111080951.5a391e3a@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20111111100708.GA24126@hades.panopticon> References: <20111109124325.17efc0d1.stas@deglitch.com> <20111109222435.GD92221@azathoth.lan> <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> <4EBCC587.10701@FreeBSD.org> <20111111100708.GA24126@hades.panopticon>
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:07:08 +0400 Dmitry Marakasov articulated: > * Martin Wilke (miwi@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > > >> They have been deprecated for a while and noone said anything > > >> about those, that is the purpose of the DEPRECATED status. The > > >> "not used anymore" mean not used in > > > Why should we go through it again and again? If it's not broken, > > > it's useable, you may not remove it, period. > > > > > >> the portstree (ie no more depended on). > > > Most of the portstree is leaf ports, now what? > > > > > >> If someone really needs it, he can: > > > What we need is to not have to do extra work and to not have > > > extra noise on the maillist because someone does unneeded things. > > > I really don't want to call that vandalism. > > > > > You can't only put in u have also to put out. > > Why don't we take out Gnome and KDE then? I don't use it. That reality might come sooner than you think but for an entirely different reason. http://www.technograte.com/2011/05/18/gnome-to-drop-support-for-bsd-solaris-unix/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/gnome-to-drop-support-for-bsd-solaris-unix/ -- Jerry ♔
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