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Date:      Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:09:51 -0500
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent ports removal
Message-ID:  <20111111080951.5a391e3a@scorpio>
In-Reply-To: <20111111100708.GA24126@hades.panopticon>
References:  <20111109124325.17efc0d1.stas@deglitch.com> <20111109222435.GD92221@azathoth.lan> <20111110110637.GA3514@hades.panopticon> <4EBCC587.10701@FreeBSD.org> <20111111100708.GA24126@hades.panopticon>

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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:07:08 +0400
Dmitry Marakasov articulated:

> * Martin Wilke (miwi@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> 
> > >> They have been deprecated for a while and noone said anything
> > >> about those, that is the purpose of the DEPRECATED status. The
> > >> "not used anymore" mean not used in
> > > Why should we go through it again and again? If it's not broken,
> > > it's useable, you may not remove it, period.
> > >
> > >> the portstree (ie no more depended on).
> > > Most of the portstree is leaf ports, now what?
> > >
> > >> If someone really needs it, he can:
> > > What we need is to not have to do extra work and to not have
> > > extra noise on the maillist because someone does unneeded things.
> > > I really don't want to call that vandalism.
> > >
> > You can't only put in u have also to put out.
> 
> Why don't we take out Gnome and KDE then? I don't use it.

That reality might come sooner than you think but for an entirely
different reason.

http://www.technograte.com/2011/05/18/gnome-to-drop-support-for-bsd-solaris-unix/

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/gnome-to-drop-support-for-bsd-solaris-unix/

-- 
Jerry ♔



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