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

[Frank J. Laszlo]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:

>V ne, 07. 11. 2004 v 20:10, Simon L. Nielsen píše:
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>>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?
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>>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.
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>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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How about a local mirror of freshports?

-Frank