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

On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 05:49:02PM -0400, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 4:16???AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I reverted most if not all of these, including the deprecation of
> devel/py-qt5-pyqt itself. Sorry, not sorry. Fellow kde@ member
> tcberner@ initiated the deprecation of www/qt5-webkit, but I don't
> remember a discussion where wholesale deprecation of its dependencies
> was approved of.

I was very much relieved seeing these commits, thank you Jason!
With how eagerly some people try to deprive FreeBSD users of good
working software, everyone who's doing the opposite is my hero. :-)

./danfe