heads up - BEAM ports purge in PR263694

From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:23:36 UTC
hi everybody

per https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2021-09/#_freebsd_erlang_ecosystem_ports_update

I plan to remove most of the BEAM ecosystem ports that are more commonly
directly installed by end-users via rebar3 or mix tools, and do not need
substantial diffs, for example, to compile NIFs.

This leaves us with the following direct dependencies:

elixir
elixir-devel
elixir-mode.el
erlang
erlang-doc
erlang-java
erlang-man
erlang-runtime21
erlang-runtime22
erlang-runtime23
erlang-runtime24
erlang-runtime25
erlang-wx
py-Elixir
elixir-hex
elixir-make
erlang-cl
erlang-native-compiler
erlang-rebar3_hex
erlang-recon

This will take place in the next fortnight, to go into the 2022Q3
branch.

If you have any ports you'd like to keep, please let me know here:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263694

The current deletion list is below, refer to the PR for an updated
list.

A+
Dave
—
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention!

archivers/erlang-snappy
converters/erlang-base64url
databases/elixir-calecto
databases/elixir-db_connection
databases/elixir-ecto
databases/elixir-geo
databases/elixir-mariaex
databases/elixir-postgrex
databases/elixir-timex_ecto
databases/erlang-couchbeam
databases/erlang-epgsql
databases/erlang-eredis
devel/elixir-apex
devel/elixir-bson
devel/elixir-cachex
devel/elixir-calendar
devel/elixir-combine
devel/elixir-conform
devel/elixir-connection
devel/elixir-coverex
devel/elixir-crontab
devel/elixir-csv
devel/elixir-decimal
devel/elixir-deppie
devel/elixir-dialyze
devel/elixir-distillery
devel/elixir-estree
devel/elixir-eternal
devel/elixir-exactor
devel/elixir-excoveralls
devel/elixir-exjsx
devel/elixir-exprotobuf
devel/elixir-gen_stage
devel/elixir-gettext
devel/elixir-inflex
devel/elixir-libring
devel/elixir-math
devel/elixir-msgpax
devel/elixir-nadia
devel/elixir-nats
devel/elixir-nimble_csv
devel/elixir-paratize
devel/elixir-plug
devel/elixir-poison
devel/elixir-quantum
devel/elixir-smppex
devel/elixir-timex
devel/elixir-trailing_format_plug
devel/elixir-tzdata
devel/elixir-unsafe
devel/erlang-backoff
devel/erlang-bbmustache
devel/erlang-bear
devel/erlang-certifi
devel/erlang-cf
devel/erlang-common_lib
devel/erlang-cuttlefish
devel/erlang-erlware_commons
devel/erlang-esdl
devel/erlang-folsom
devel/erlang-gen_leader
devel/erlang-gen_smtp
devel/erlang-getopt
devel/erlang-goldrush
devel/erlang-gpb
devel/erlang-gproc
devel/erlang-hut
devel/erlang-jobs
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devel/erlang-katana
devel/erlang-lager
devel/erlang-lager_syslog
devel/erlang-meck
devel/erlang-metrics
devel/erlang-neotoma
devel/erlang-parse_trans
devel/erlang-poolboy
devel/erlang-pooler
devel/erlang-providers
devel/erlang-sbroker
devel/erlang-ssl_verify_fun
devel/erlang-syslog
devel/erlang-unicode_util_compat
dns/erlang-idna
misc/elixir-mime
misc/elixir-uuid
misc/erlang-mimerl
misc/erlang-mimetypes
net/elixir-kafka_ex
net/elixir-oauth2
net/erlang-ranch
security/elixir-comeonin
security/elixir-comeonin_i18n
security/elixir-jose
security/erlang-fast_tls
security/erlang-jose
textproc/elixir-earmark
textproc/elixir-funnel
textproc/elixir-sweet_xml
textproc/erlang-edown
textproc/erlang-fast_xml
textproc/erlang-p1_utils
textproc/erlang-yamerl
www/elixir-html_entities
www/elixir-html_sanitize_ex
www/elixir-httpoison
www/elixir-httpotion
www/elixir-joken
www/elixir-maru
www/elixir-phoenix
www/elixir-phoenix_ecto
www/elixir-phoenix_html
www/elixir-phoenix_pubsub
www/elixir-webassembly
www/erlang-cowboy
www/erlang-cowlib
www/erlang-hackney
www/erlang-ibrowse
www/erlang-mochiweb
www/erlang-mochiweb-basho
www/erlang-webmachine