From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 22:09:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F257106566C; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:09:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3648B14DF5D; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EBD9D25.7020406@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:09:41 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Marakasov References: <20111109124325.17efc0d1.stas@deglitch.com> <20111109222435.GD92221@azathoth.lan> <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin 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 22:09:42 -0000 On 11/10/2011 03:06, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Baptiste Daroussin (bapt@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. Yes, we realize that you, and a small minority of other interested parties, have this belief in spite of endless repetition of the reasoning, by the people who do the actual work to keep the ports tree functional, as to why your desire to keep every port is not a workable solution. I personally have handled the removal of hundreds of broken and vulnerable ports over the last several months. A very small percentage (2% perhaps?) were ports that people cared enough to fix, and the fact that someone fixed them is a great outcome. OTOH, in several cases after contacting the port's maintainer I was told that yes indeed, they would like the port removed, but were unsure of how to go about it. The removed ports are in the CVS attic where any interested party can retrieve and fix them. However the fact that no one has made a peep about them is a pretty strong indication that they were simply dead weight that we were carrying for no good reason. Doug -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/