Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 06:09:01 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Ulrich Sp??rlein <uqs@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r534093 - in head: . audio audio/festvox-czech audio/gkrellmvolume2 audio/mixmos audio/mma audio/pd-cyclone audio/shorten audio/taglib-sharp audio/xhippo biology biology/consed biology/... Message-ID: <20200509060901.GA4597@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20200508133245.GD3075@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <202005051538.045FcC5t083716@repo.freebsd.org> <CAJ9axoQKjKg8Hp9xYusGziwy3XTz%2BQa2Dt43-9wuFAE1XgZtww@mail.gmail.com> <CAALwa8nwfb9c0TpZS40jxECM2Mn7pMfmipgfZAuZ32Dy26QAcg@mail.gmail.com> <20200506083234.GA64535@FreeBSD.org> <CAALwa8ks-p7eROa8N7NKoeSbMuwosQWpYkko7j7RtLBAtpBGGw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ9axoSoJVwxCstQ%2BDQZKWyNn4Ecmm5o9jythrKgCsGKJYe2uA@mail.gmail.com> <20200507074443.whhdbabiimrjsand@ivaldir.net> <20200508133245.GD3075@acme.spoerlein.net>
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On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:32:45PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: > ... > I'm certain we cannot agree on this point, but let me retort anyway: > this situation is not the worst, it's the _best_ possible situation! > > It conveys to an interested (!) user that sysutils/hidesvn had a > working port to FreeBSD that was working at some time. It conveys the > place/category in the ports tree it was in, and it gives them an > opportunity to fix the port (it's just a size mismatch after all). > > It makes no difference to the user running `pkg add`, yes. And I would > say that keeping the broken port around and run shlib bumps against it > isn't that much of a burden to the project. This very well describes my viewpoint as well. Unfortunately Ulrich, we're the minority. ./danfe
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