cvs commit: ports/archivers Makefile ports/archivers/zlib Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/archivers/zlib/files patch-configure

[Steven Kreuzer]

On Oct 18, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 07:07:47PM +0000, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
>> skreuzer    2009-10-18 19:07:47 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    archivers            Makefile
>>  Added files:
>>    archivers/zlib       Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
>>    archivers/zlib/files patch-configure
>>  Log:
>>  A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library
>
> Unless I have missed something, this library is already in the base  
> FreeBSD
> system and has been there for several years.  What is the point in  
> having it
> in the ports tree as well?

I needed zlib for a project I am working on and I checked to see if it  
was in ports but didn't
bother to check if it was in base.

Since zlib hasen't seen an update in 4 years, it doesn't make sense to  
maintain a port of it
so it has been removed.

Thanks for catching that.

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Steven Kreuzer
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