Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:20:47 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Beech Rintoul <beech@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/procmail Makefile Message-ID: <4E5F5C7F.6090109@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4E5E6A7E.3040606@FreeBSD.org> References: <201108300823.p7U8NIfD038098@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E5D26E2.7040300@gmx.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108301353530.66881@io-tx.com> <201108301345.25661.beech@freebsd.org> <4E5E6A7E.3040606@FreeBSD.org>
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on 31/08/2011 20:08 Matthias Andree said the following: > If everyone cared to read not just the past three posts but what was > written earlier in this whole thread, and ceased adding to the > meaningless "I've had no problems", that would help. > > Just because someone hasn't tripped over the bugs yet, is not a reason > to keep a port known to have massive bugs. It's like security bugs, > many people won't notice them and believe the software to be in proper > working order until after it's too late. > > There's a difference between "mature" and abandoned-and-known-buggy. > Not everything that hasn't changed in years is mature, there are a > number of projects that have simply died and not been picked up by > somebody else. Not everything that has bugs is useless. Not everything that appears to be abandoned is useless and can't/won't be picked up. If you don't want to use this port - fine. But let other people use it if they want. -- Andriy Gapon
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