On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote:
--On Monday, March 02, 2009 16:36:38 -0600 David E. Thiel l...@freebsd.org
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
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com 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
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM, David E. Thiel l...@freebsd.org 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 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:09:04 -0600, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com
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+
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 dead now. Can
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, as
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 months?
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 find them...
--On Monday, March 02, 2009 16:36:38 -0600 David E. Thiel l...@freebsd.org
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
Le Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:09:04 -0800,
Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com:
[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
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
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Garrett Cooper gmail.com!yanef...@agora.rdrop.com 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
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com 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
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 | grep xmms-1
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
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:09 -0500
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com 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
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 fact that
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 can't testify to
On Saturday 28 February 2009 15:05:56 Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com 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...
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