cvs commit: ports MOVED ports/x11-wm Makefile ports/x11-wm/xfce Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/xfce/files patch-ltmain.sh patch-other::xinitrc.in patch-xfce::taskbar.c

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 3 01:59:20 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:05:39PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 02/02/2012 08:39, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:07:26PM +0000, Rene Ladan wrote:
> >> rene        2012-02-02 16:07:26 UTC
> >>
> >>   Log:
> >>   Remove expired port:
> >>   2012-02-01 x11-wm/xfce: abandoned upstream, use x11-wm/xfce4 instead
> > 
> > Perhaps it makes sense to move x11-wm/xfce4 -> x11-wm/xfce now?  
> 
> No, please don't do that. These moves are *very* disruptive to users,
> especially when you're trying to update ports on a system that hasn't
> been updated in a while.

Sure, I am not strongly advocating for it, just asking.  Perhaps if pkgng
will allow "shallow" port moves (i.e. updating only package information
under /var/pkg/db) there'll be less worries.

./danfe


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