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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Chris Rees wrote:

> On 14 April 2013 01:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> wrote:
>> 2013/04/13 16:01?Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com> ??????:
>>
>>> Maybe something else, but whatever it is, it should be done.  If you and Gleb don't want to do this, I will.
>>
>> I already started writing a guide. See here for a very incomplete version:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ipf-deprecation/article.html
>
> If you're really serious about deprecating ipf, we absolutely have to
> remove instructions for it from the Handbook as soon as possible;
> every time a new user comes across instructions you're going to have
> yet another annoyed party.
>
> http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/remove-ipf.diff

This should probably be done like we did for CVS for ports.  Mark it as 
deprecated, then remove the Handbook section once the code is removed.

Is it possible to move ipfilter into a port?