saving a few ports from death

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Tue Apr 26 18:28:58 UTC 2011


On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:24 -0700
Charlie Kester <corky1951 at comcast.net> articulated:

> It's a bit of a leap to assume that a program that's popular on Linux
> will be as popular on BSD, but it's the best data we have for the time
> being.

If you want to definitively ascertain the popularity of an application,
just remove it from the ports structure and see how many users complain.

-- 
Jerry ✌
jerry+ports at seibercom.net

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