Re: git: c3da27075a6d - main - science/py-pymol: Mark DEPRECATED

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 08:16:31 UTC
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:06:58PM +0300, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> Hi Muhammad,
> 
> > commit c3da27075a6d38d1c3659a242245c519a6756165
> > 
> >     science/py-pymol: Mark DEPRECATED
> > 
> >     - Depends on deprecated devel/py-qt5-pyqt
> 
> please, don't mark ports DEPRECATED recursively.

+1

> pyqt5 can be (and will be) packaged without qtwebkit support.
> Ports that depend on pyqt5 mostly don't care about qtwebkit,
> so there is no point in deprecation stamp.

It's not just useless, it creates needless repochurn: after pyqt5
will be divorced from webkit, someone(tm) has to revisit all these
ports and revert undue deprecation.

./danfe