> On Sep 28, 2014, at 17:44, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> 
>> Why don't we just remove xorg-cf-files, imake, and all dependent ports?  
>> Obviously any project still using imake a decade after the build system was 
>> declared dead are themselves not well maintained projects and I argue should 
>> not be in our port repository.
>> 
>> These are the ports that depend on the archaic build system:
> 
> I don't plan to remove these ports. I cannot speak for all of them, but as I 
> said earlier, some of the ports I maintain depend on some of the above ports. 
> In particular, pure-octave depends on octave which depends on transfig. 

Then let's fix transfig (or just remove the imake-dependent portions of it).


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