Ports scheduled for removal on Nov 7

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 10 21:18:10 PDT 2003


On Sunday, 10 August 2003 at 11:42:08 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> I think it would definitely be off-topic for freebsd-questions, but
>> I'd be more open to -announce.  The only thing is that port removals
>> are a periodic event (I just happen to have more than usual queued up
>> this time), so if I do it this time I should do it every time.
>
> Well, I can suggest a class of messages such as (ports scheduled
> for deletion|changes to ports framework that will affect various
> ports|freeze in effect|freeze lifted), possibly others.  I think
> there would be an audience for this mailing list who would not
> otherwise be able to follow the large-volume ports mailing lists.
>
> freebsd-ports-announce?

Given the central importance of ports to FreeBSD and the low traffic
volume of -announce, I can't see any good reason for a separate list.

Greg
--
See complete headers for address and phone numbers
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/attachments/20030811/31382822/attachment.bin


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list