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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:23:32 +0300
From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Alberto Villa <avilla@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Removed ports - looking from the bench
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:30:16 +0100
Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10 September 2011 10:46, Alberto Villa <avilla@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 September 2011 10:53:54 Chris Rees wrote:
> >> I also don't think this is a terrible idea, but perhaps we could
> >> just put a little section about Resurrecting dead ports with a
> >> quick cvs tutorial into the Porter's Handbook?
> >
> > why not writing a make target in bsd.port.mk to do it? cvs is in
> > base, after all. something like `make resurrect the/port`...

No. b.p.m is complex enough as it is. Dead meat WILL NOT be put into it.

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