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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2019 14:27:09 -0600
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r501300 - in head: math math/curv misc misc/openvdb
Message-ID:  <CAP7rwchxDGgoS-vGZs9MVEdpQtRpGfP3PhvtTg_DqhGCxsmOiQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1562227.MsCH1bHPGx@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk>
References:  <201905112022.x4BKM9n6069421@repo.freebsd.org> <1562227.MsCH1bHPGx@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk>

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On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Antoine Brodin wrote:
> > Author: antoine
> > Date: Sat May 11 20:22:09 2019
> > New Revision: 501300
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/501300
> >
> > Log:
> >   Remove untested ports
>
> You could have marked them BROKEN instead.

BROKEN is for ports that used to work and now there's a problem. It
lets end-users keep what they have instead of accidentally building
something known not to work anymore.

When a port is broken from the start, there's no point in it being in
the tree. It can be re-added if/when it works.

# Adam


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Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org



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