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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:57:45 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r244865 - in head: . lib lib/libdisk share/mk
Message-ID:  <CAGH67wTCTOBCkdVuuS9PRJU-BxX3X7y6w20kvf_Zrfg%2B_OS4Ng@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> .. not that I mind old things being retired, but we really should
> announce things like this.
>
> Also - you disconnected libftpio too; is that intentional?
>
> Just because libdisk/libftpio isn't used by anything in the base -HEAD
> doesn't mean that:
>
> * it's not used by third party programs in ports;
> * it's not used by any external, non open source utilities that people
> have read.
>
> So I'd suggest creating a port for them both and begin the process of
> deprecating the kernel side interfaces that are unique to this API.

+1

This is what exp- runs are for (portmgr can help with this).
HTH,
-Garrett



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