On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:09:04 -0600, Garrett Cooper
wrote:
Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
helpful...
multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
releases in th
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:40:42AM +0200, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
> Frankly, I would glad to see absolutely another discussion: not about
> dropping software that works (and as far as I understand, which port
> is maintained), but about making needed but broken software work again
> (e.g. valgrind
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM, David E. Thiel wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
>> > releases in the past 3 years
>> >
>> > I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I completely agree. So long as a port is being used and people find it
>> useful, I think it would be a mistake to remove those ports. In fact I
>> suspect it wouldn't be long before
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Monday, March 02, 2009 16:36:38 -0600 "David E. Thiel"
> wrote:
>>
>> While I'm in favor of removing useless ports, there are several projects
>> which are simply "done", and lack of development doesn't mean they're
>> obsolete or useless
--On Monday, March 02, 2009 16:36:38 -0600 "David E. Thiel"
wrote:
While I'm in favor of removing useless ports, there are several projects
which are simply "done", and lack of development doesn't mean they're
obsolete or useless.
I completely agree. So long as a port is being used and peopl
On Monday 02 March 2009 13:36:38 David E. Thiel wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
> > > releases in the past 3 years
> > >
> > > I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:30:46PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:35:38PM -0801, David E. Thiel wrote:
> > I would like to hear what people feel the best method for getting rid
> > of unused and irrelevant ports, though -- bump portrevision and mark
> > BROKEN for a few mon
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:35:38PM -0801, David E. Thiel wrote:
> I would like to hear what people feel the best method for getting rid
> of unused and irrelevant ports, though -- bump portrevision and mark
> BROKEN for a few months?
How about marking them DEPRECATED and with an EXPIRATION_DATE, a
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
> > releases in the past 3 years
> >
> > I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them...
> > Thanks,
> > -Garrett
>
> xmms looks completely
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM, wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be
>> marked deprecated and removed ...
>>
>> multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
>> no releases in the past 3 years
>
> This strikes me
Garrett Cooper wrote:
Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
helpful...
[...]
Another candidate would be lang/drscheme:
- the port is not maintained any longer
- it installs a rather old version
Le Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:09:04 -0800,
Garrett Cooper :
[Dead projects]
lang/smarteiffel (1.2r7)
- does not fetch on the master site.
- broken for a while with gcc4 except on i386 (known problem not
specific to FreeBSD).
- not updated to 1.2r8.
- project dead.
- only one user (me)?
I think we can
On Saturday 28 February 2009 15:05:56 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
> > deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
> > helpful...
> >
> > multimedia/
On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:33:17 Robert Huff wrote:
> per...@pluto.rain.com writes:
> > > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
> > > no releases in the past 3 years
> >
> > This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :)
> >
> > While I ca
per...@pluto.rain.com writes:
> > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
> > no releases in the past 3 years
>
> This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :)
>
> While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port,
> the fac
Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be
> marked deprecated and removed ...
>
> multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
> no releases in the past 3 years
This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :)
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:09 -0500
Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Garrett Cooper writes:
>
> > > Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be
> > > marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the
> > > list would be helpful...
> >
> > xmms looks completely dead now.
Robert Huff wrote:
Garrett Cooper writes:
>Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
> deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
> helpful...
xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this
fact?
huff@>> dir /var/d
Garrett Cooper writes:
> > Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
> > deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
> > helpful...
>
> xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this
> fact?
huff@>> dir /var/dv/pkg | gre
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
> deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
> helpful...
>
> multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
> releases in
Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be marked
deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the list would be
helpful...
multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
releases in the past 3 years
I'll continue posting more items to this thr
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