removing old linux ports

[Eitan Adler]

On 5 March 2013 15:27, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:

> As soon as you remove compatibility shims (but the make syntax is
> still compatible), you should make a test at the beginning of
> bsd.port.mk which then tells the user that the ports collection doesn't
> work on OSVERSION < xxx anymore. Just because we know that 7.x is EoL
> doesn't mean that users know about it too, and a clear message is much
> more helpful than an obscure error message or a silent failure
> (e.g. installing linux ports which are not compatible).

Understood.   I would rather see this be a general error message than
anything specific to the emulation@ ports.

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Eitan Adler