From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 20:41:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5204B1065688; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:41:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@deglitch.com) Received: from mx0.deglitch.com (cl-414.sto-01.se.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff00:19d::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C019E8FC21; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orion.SpringDaemons.com (207.47.0.2.static.nextweb.net [207.47.0.2]) by mx0.deglitch.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DA1048FC2D; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:41:01 +0400 (MSK) Received: from orion (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.SpringDaemons.com (Postfix) with SMTP id BF2275C35; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:40:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:40:12 -0800 From: Stanislav Sedov To: Dmitry Marakasov Message-Id: <20111111124012.3ec48cb3.stas@deglitch.com> 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> Organization: Deglitch Networks X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin , Stanislav Sedov , Martin Wilke Subject: Re: Recent ports removal X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:41:06 -0000 On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:07:08 +0400 Dmitry Marakasov mentioned: > * 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. > Because portmgr@ is using it? There're numerous cases when unmaintained, buggy, vulnerable and plainly dangerous stuff stays in tree because someone in portmgr gang likes it when other applications not used by them being removed without prior discussion notice. Because your opinion doesn't matter. Neither is mine. Like in old good USSR times... -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments