Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:08:42 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Bloat Message-ID: <20061015190842.GA94731@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: > A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the > FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new > software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever > thought about: >=20 > A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port maintainers INSTEAD > of marking 'transfer ownership to ports@freebsd.org' and hoping > somebody takes it over one day could actually just delete ports they no > longer wish to maintain. There should be some sort of WARN marking > mechanism though (valid for X months (maybe 6)) that notifies any new > user (or current via a portupgrade and EPOCH bumb) that this port is no > longer maintained and scheduled for deletion unless one of them takes > over maitainership by DATE. If you can make a good case for a port being useless (e.g. superceded by something else, only useful for obsolete purposes, etc), then you can follow the usual deprecation procedure. Otherwise, functioning but unmaintained ports should not be deleted en masse. Kris --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFMoc5Wry0BWjoQKURAnodAJ48XYXTZuj3I0HXyRAv+qxgsyDEIACgvQKf rU90DUDo36SagGufD40XF8w= =6L0I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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