Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:24 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death Message-ID: <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org> References: <ip53jn$92d$1@dough.gmane.org> <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <A9C17565-97D8-43F1-9CF7-8CFC79EFEA7B@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon 25 Apr 2011 at 22:55:10 PDT Ade Lovett wrote: > >On Apr 25, 2011, at 21:41 , Charlie Kester wrote: >> Maybe freshports could implement a voting system like the one at >> osx.iusethis.com? > >"Voting" implies some kind of democracy. I just thought it might be useful to get some actual data to support the inference that an unmaintained port is likely to be an unused and therefore unneeded port. I have no objection to your argument that what gets done is what someone is willing to do. And I am sensitive to the fact that every port imposes some additional burden on the system. I'm all for cleaning out the cruft. I'm not a web programmer and don't have access to the freshports sourcecode. So all I can do there is make a suggestion. But perhaps I'll take some time to go through the list of unmaintained ports and manually check them against the popularity ratings on a site like freshmeat. It's a bit of a leap to assume that a program that's popular on Linux will be as popular on BSD, but it's the best data we have for the time being.
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