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Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>,
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Subject: Re: status of FreeBSD ports you maintain as of 20090705
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Diego Depaoli wrote:

> There are too many ports and too few people who care them.
> IMHO the options are:
> - decrease the number of ports

We trim dead/useless ports all the time.

> - increase the number of  volunteers/committers/testers...

This is the only valid answer for FreeBSD.

> - switch to a multi-level solution (e.g. Archlinux).

In DiegoBSD you should feel free to use any solution you think is
useful. :)


Doug

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