Recent ports removal

[Martin Wilke]

On 11/10/2011 11:06, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Baptiste Daroussin (bapt at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>
>>> I noticed the following in the commit log:
>>> %
>>> %  Modified files:
>>> %    .                    MOVED
>>> %    devel                Makefile
>>> %    graphics             Makefile
>>> %  Removed files:
>>> %    devel/soup           Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
>>> %    devel/soup/files     patch-Makefile.in patch-configure
>>> %                         patch-docs::reference::Makefile.in
>>> %                         patch-soup-0.7.11-gcc41
>>> %                         patch-src_libsoup_soup-message.c
>>> %                         patch-src_libwsdl_wsdl-soap-memory.c
>>> %                         patch-src_libwsdl_wsdl-soap-parse.c
>>> %                         patch-src_libwsdl_wsdl-typecodes.c
>>> %    graphics/clutter-qt  Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
>>> %    graphics/librsvg     Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
>>> %    graphics/librsvg/files patch-Makefile.in patch-configure
>>> %                           patch-librsvg-config.in patch-rsvg-ft.c
>>> %                           patch-test-ft-gtk.c patch-test-ft.c
>>> %    graphics/p5-clutter  Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
>>> %  Log:
>>> %  2011-11-06 devel/soup: Unmaintain, use devel/libsoup
>>> %  2011-11-06 graphics/clutter-qt: upstream distfile and doesn't build, and %doesn't seem to be developed anymore
>>> %  2011-11-06 graphics/p5-clutter: upstream distfile disappeard, and doesn't seem to be developed anymore
>>> %  2011-11-06 graphics/librsvg: unmaintained and not used anymore
>>>
>>> I just cannot get the commit message. librsvg -- not used by whom?  Personally,
>>> I used it in one of my older projects (~ 10 years old) which I don't plan
>>> to rework to use rsvg2/gtk2 because it doesn't make sense for it.  So how
>>> do I use my project now on FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> It's also a lie that it's not maintained, it's maintained by ports@ mailing
>>> list and the community.  So please, restore it.
>>>
>>> The same also probably goes for other ports, but I don't have enough details
>>> to comment.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>> They have been deprecated for a while and noone said anything about those, that
>> is the purpose of the DEPRECATED status. The "not used anymore" mean not used in
> Why should we go through it again and again? If it's not broken, it's
> useable, you may not remove it, period.
>
>> the portstree (ie no more depended on).
> Most of the portstree is leaf ports, now what?
>
>> If someone really needs it, he can:
> What we need is to not have to do extra work and to not have extra noise
> on the maillist because someone does unneeded things. I really don't
> want to call that vandalism.
>
You can't only put in u have also to put out.

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         Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org)

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