From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 11:12:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 876CA106566C; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:12:54 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Johan van Selst Message-ID: <20120104111254.GC3811@FreeBSD.org> References: <201201021214.q02CErbi098315@repoman.freebsd.org> <4F024051.1030907@FreeBSD.org> <20120104092337.GA78009@mud.stack.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120104092337.GA78009@mud.stack.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors Makefile ports/editors/ged Makefile distinfo pkg-descr X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: **OBSOLETE** CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:12:54 -0000 On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 10:23:38AM +0100, Johan van Selst wrote: > Actually, I don't really see the benefit of this port. But there was > a request for it and it seemed like little effort to maintain it ;) Per quoted above, it should not be added. Contrary to GNU versions of sed and awk, if base ed(1) can be used as drop-in replacement, over-populating ports collection just because someone wanted to remain their work in the history does not warrant it. I believe the best would be to follow up with maintainer and either 1) find out and explain in pkg-descr what this port can do that base ed(1) cannot; or 2) cvs rm it. ./danfe