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From: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com>
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Subject: Re: www/waterfox: Why is it deprecated?
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On 2018-02-28 06:22, Naram Qashat wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> I was wondering why www/waterfox currently has a deprecation notice
> for 2018-03-20 of "Temporary experiment". Are there no plans to keep
> Waterfox in the ports tree as an alternative to Firefox? The project
> appears to be an active fork of Firefox.
> 
> Thanks,
> Naram Qashat

Hi Jan,

I never got a reply to this inquiry, and the port looks to be set to 
expire in a week. I notice you still commit changes to the port as well. 
Is the port really going to be removed next week?

Thanks,
Naram Qashat