Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:12:32 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: eol1@yahoo.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Bloat Message-ID: <4532A440.7050509@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Peter Thoenen wrote: > 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. When I asked for one of my ports to be deleted, the request was honored extremely quickly and without trouble. I see no need for a special procedure for this. Stephen
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4532A440.7050509>