saving a few ports from death
Mikhail T.
mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com
Wed Apr 27 16:29:02 UTC 2011
On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Robert Huff wrote:
> It is also possible it is only important to a fairly small
> number ... but to those it is absolutely crucial.
Or the port might become useful/essential/critical to somebody in the future...
What is not broken -- just old, like databases/db2 or www/apache13*, for
example -- should be left alone (until it becomes both broken and unmaintained).
And even then, the removal should not be mass-scale/automatic...
Maybe, for cleanliness and neatness, we should have a separate directory (and
category): "obsolete" -- where ports can go to die peacefully. But it should not
be cvs' "Attic"...
-mi
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