Dead projects in ports tree

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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:09 -0500
Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

> 
> Garrett Cooper writes:
> 
> >  >    Just trying to amass cruft in the ports tree that could be
> >  > marked deprecated and removed. Some assistance in amassing the
> >  > list would be helpful...
> >
> >  xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this
> >  fact?
> 
> huff@>> dir /var/dv/pkg | grep xmms-1
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Feb 27 15:47 xmms-1.2.11_6
> huff@>> ps -ax | grep xmms
> 99029  ??  S    102:16.39 /usr/local/bin/xmms
> 
> 	It's currently playing Fleetwood Mac's "The chain" ....

Quite.  I find xmms very useful as a secondary mp2/flac player,
particularly when I have a long playlist is amarok, and I don't want to
lose my place in an audio-book, or opera.

I don't see the point in removing stable software just because it
hasn't needed fixing recently.