Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with FreshPorts

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 7 20:58:34 GMT 2004


V ne, 07. 11. 2004 v 20:10, Simon L. Nielsen píše:

> On the FreeBSD website we have the ports pages at
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ which are inferior in most ways to
> FreshPorts [1], so I would propose that we retire the FreeBSD ports
> web pages and just direct people at FreshPorts instead.  Does anybody
> have any strong objections to this?
> 
> If this is going to be done I plan to put dummy redirect web pages on
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ to replace the current category pages
> there so there shouldn't be problems with deads links there.

Humm, I would object this proposal. We should not totally outsource such
a critical part of the website to third party. Imagine that something
happen to Dan and the freshports domain changes to porn site or
something... where we will be?


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Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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