Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:44:26 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Python 2.7 removal outline Message-ID: <20210326154426.7c7079f2@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2103261347370.85788@aneurin.horsfall.org> References: <20210324130347.GA29020@freefall.freebsd.org> <10693816.1udYB6hd2u@ravel> <20210325150320.f74kx2uor4dwl5y5@aniel.nours.eu> <feba494f-b1ea-5bbe-0457-1c85ab08041a@quip.cz> <3c1821a8-0afb-f27c-05d4-6ad0cf577f2a@m5p.com> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2103261347370.85788@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:55:33 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote: > > >> [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current > >> state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...] > > > > Until this thread I had never heard of them. -- > > George > > I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly with CP/M); > I didn't know that FreeBSD even supported them (why bother when > you've got VM?). I doubt that meaning of overlay is going to be relevant. I'd not heard of it either, but from looking in ports/Mk/ it seems to be a way of modifying port builds.
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