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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:05:49 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removed ports - looking from the bench
Message-ID:  <20110910190549.GA23971@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <CADLo83_jp3Orrjp0LvVRnwxY-RL=0e8PSXmEruwaH7TsLZ7=VA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 10 September 2011 18:15, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 04:45:02PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >>
> >> I want to make installing dead ports harder for users.
> >
> > Why?
>=20
> Someone who wants to install a port that has been deprecated and
> removed should really have enough skills to check a port out of the
> Attic at least-- it's one command line. I don't see how much simpler
> it could get:

This does not answer my question.  I find the very concept of wanting to
make it harder for a user to install software bizarre.  I could
understand wanting to achieve some other goal, and suffering the
unfortunate case of making it harder to install something, but I do not
understand the simple fact of wanting to make life harder for others,
unless it is a matter of pure spite.  Thus my question:

Why?

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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