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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:45:52 +0100
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-www@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with FreshPorts
Message-ID:  <20041120224551.GJ753@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20041107191051.GK753@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <20041107191051.GK753@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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On 2004.11.07 20:10:52 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> On the FreeBSD website we have the ports pages at
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ which are inferior in most ways to
> FreshPorts [1], so I would propose that we retire the FreeBSD ports
> web pages and just direct people at FreshPorts instead.  Does anybody
> have any strong objections to this?

FYI, since it turned out that there are actually people who do use the
ports web pages, and since I do understand the argument that some
"official" resource for ports should be available, I'm not going to
remove the /ports/ pages.

Thanks for all the comments! (also the ones which I did not respond
directly to)

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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