On Mar 29, 2011, at 04:11 , Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I recently happened to notice that lang/compaq-cc is still present
> in the ports tree, although it's only for alpha. It can presumably
> be deleted.
Most likely, yes. Unless there are dependent ports which also need to =
be burned away.
> That triggered me to have a closer look through the ports tree.
> Whilst there aren't any other alpha-only ports, there are a number of
> other ports that mention alpha in ONLY_FOR_ARCHS or in conditional
> make code. A complete list follows. How should this be handled? It
> seems silly to submit a massive number of PRs.
Certainly one PR per port is not the way to go. If I were to do this =
(and, no I'm not volunteering ;) I'd (a) get approval from portmgr@ to =
forcibly remove alpha/axp support from the tree and then (b) simply =
check out all the relevant ports below, break out the Danish Axe, and do =
a single "byebye, Alpha" commit.
However, there's no real defined policy on purging truly dead "stuff" (a =
_similar_ example would be hunting down anything for OSVERSION <=3D =
699999 since we have the 6_EOL tag).
-aDe
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