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On Sun, 4/13/14, Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 11:45 AM
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=A0 =
=A0 On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny
=A0 wrote:
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=A0 >>> On this list I see cfv, which I've used for
=A0 years, marked just because
=A0 >>> it's
=A0 >>> not maintained. It works great, it needs no
=A0 changes. =
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=A0 > I'm not officially a maintainer on any ports for a
few
=A0 reasons. I have other =
=A0 > areas where I consider spending my time more
valuable,
=A0 but if I have to waste =
=A0 > it on port maintenance, I'll try to do so in the most
=A0 efficient way. =
=A0 =
=A0 Well, you basically said you're more important than
anybody
=A0 that
=A0 regularly reads this list, so good luck with that tact.
=A0 .......................................................................=
.................I
regularly
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...............read
this list
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................and
also
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.............have
not the
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..........experience
or time
=A0 So you should become a committer.
=A0 =
=A0 Try submitting the patches, including staging and assuming
=A0 maintainership (and then honestly be the maintainer).=A0
=A0 =
=A0 Staging is not an opt-in feature so as
=A0 harsh as it is to
=A0 say
=A0 =
=A0 This indicates that you haven't been paying attention.=A0
=A0 =
=A0It's not a goal to have the most
=A0 ports possible; =
=A0 =
...............................................Maybe take
changes to a =
subsection of the forum? I've posted there...
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A new subsection group: ports
X11...
WWW...
DEVEL...
maybe one DELETIONS ( a sticky or subsection)
and/or PENDING DELETIONS ... and/or
and deleted ports could be bought back again for those
who find them useful, even if someone was reading about
a years-ago removal.
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Pardiff (diffp ) comes to mind (just removed this week)
I use the diffp binary for diffing ports-to-upgrade pipe
results between days (diffp portlist.MON portlist.TUE)
I suppose mergemaster.sh could even be updated to
be more similar to the output of diffp.
.....
gfontview... =
...
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Just puttting that idea onto the forum expansion, which
maybe could solve problems quicker than PR's.
For instance, as of now,
textproc/po4a
x11/roxterm
devel/dconf
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all fail to build "failed to load exteral entity "http://docbook.sourcefor=
ge.net/release/
xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"=A0 "
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and maybe if the forum had been expanded, threads (dconf
po4a roxterm) would
have been started/updated explaining the fix, if anyone knew
it. =
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Lost post en route to the list [ addressee maybe
incomplete] Re-sending from the SENT folder. =
Sorry for the delay...
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