Dead projects in ports tree

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sat Feb 28 18:33:19 PST 2009


perryh at pluto.rain.com writes:

>  > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
>  > no releases in the past 3 years
>  
>  This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :)
>  
>  While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port,
>  the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just
>  as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need
>  to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful.

	Are there criteria - or even guidelines - for when a port
should be reaped?


					Robert Huff



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