From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 21:18:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A8B37B708 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3837A445C7 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3B26C526C3; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:38:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:38:01 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20030811010801.GH83425@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030810062254.GA11719@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aAwQsp3R3A4c5Jjk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Ports scheduled for removal on Nov 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 04:18:10 -0000 --aAwQsp3R3A4c5Jjk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 10 August 2003 at 11:42:08 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: >> I think it would definitely be off-topic for freebsd-questions, but >> I'd be more open to -announce. The only thing is that port removals >> are a periodic event (I just happen to have more than usual queued up >> this time), so if I do it this time I should do it every time. > > Well, I can suggest a class of messages such as (ports scheduled > for deletion|changes to ports framework that will affect various > ports|freeze in effect|freeze lifted), possibly others. I think > there would be an audience for this mailing list who would not > otherwise be able to follow the large-volume ports mailing lists. > > freebsd-ports-announce? Given the central importance of ports to FreeBSD and the low traffic volume of -announce, I can't see any good reason for a separate list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --aAwQsp3R3A4c5Jjk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/NuxxIubykFB6QiMRAnJGAJ9SEO+o5pWqIDjpwTtu9hR+qZUvuACfX6EG DPvCH4Xz3r9t4BUi6klt7As= =vD5a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aAwQsp3R3A4c5Jjk--