[PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:

> It's not like your proposal is bad, ports instantaneously tracking
> upstream changes and not needing maintainers would really be cool,
> but unfortunately that's practically impossible.

Some software projects are switching over to this kind of a model,  
like glibc.
-Garrett