Dead projects in ports tree

Beech Rintoul beech at freebsd.org
Sat Feb 28 23:05:11 PST 2009


On Saturday 28 February 2009 15:05:56 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >    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...
> >
> > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no
> > releases in the past 3 years
> >
> >    I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them...
> > Thanks,
> > -Garrett
>
> xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact?

That port is maintained by me. There haven't been any updates for awhile, but 
the port is stable. Two reasons to leave it alone. 1: It is stable and works 
on all versions and 2: The port has several ports that depend on it.

Beech
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