Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:59:42 -0400 From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: saving a few ports from death Message-ID: <4DB83D6E.9000800@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <ip53jn$92d$1@dough.gmane.org> <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Robert Huff wrote:
> It is also possible it is only important to a fairly small
> number ... but to those it is absolutely crucial.
Or the port might become useful/essential/critical to somebody in the future...
What is not broken -- just old, like databases/db2 or www/apache13*, for
example -- should be left alone (until it becomes both broken and unmaintained).
And even then, the removal should not be mass-scale/automatic...
Maybe, for cleanliness and neatness, we should have a separate directory (and
category): "obsolete" -- where ports can go to die peacefully. But it should not
be cvs' "Attic"...
-mi
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