Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:45:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion Message-ID: <1397414752.10247.YahooMailBasic@web140906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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=20 On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: >>> On this list I see cfv, which I've used for years, marked just because >>> it's >>> not maintained. It works great, it needs no changes.=20 > I'm not officially a maintainer on any ports for a few reasons. I have other=20 > areas where I consider spending my time more valuable, but if I have to waste=20 > it on port maintenance, I'll try to do so in the most efficient way.=20 =20 Well, you basically said you're more important than anybody that regularly reads this list, so good luck with that tact. ..........................................................................= .............I regularly ...........................................................................= .............read this list ...........................................................................= ..............and also ...........................................................................= ...........have not the ...........................................................................= ........experience or time So you should become a committer. =20 Try submitting the patches, including staging and assuming maintainership (and then honestly be the maintainer).=A0 =20 =A0 Staging is not an opt-in feature so as harsh as it is to say =20 This indicates that you haven't been paying attention.=A0 =20 =A0It's not a goal to have the most ports possible;=20 =20 ...............................................Maybe take changes to a=20 subsection of the forum? I've posted there... A new subsection group: ports X11... WWW... DEVEL... maybe one DELETIONS ( a sticky or subsection) and/or PENDING DELETIONS ... and/or and deleted ports could be bought back again for those who find them useful, even if someone was reading about a years-ago removal. Pardiff (diffp ) comes to mind (just removed this week) I use the diffp binary for diffing ports-to-upgrade pipe results between days (diffp portlist.MON portlist.TUE) I suppose mergemaster.sh could even be updated to be more similar to the output of diffp. ..... gfontview...=20 ... Just puttting that idea onto the forum expansion, which maybe could solve problems quicker than PR's. For instance, as of now, textproc/po4a x11/roxterm devel/dconf all fail to build "failed to load exteral entity "http://docbook.sourceforg= e.net/release/ xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl" " and maybe if the forum had been expanded, threads (dconf po4a roxterm) woul= d have been started/updated explaining the fix, if anyone knew it.=20
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