Dead projects in ports tree

David E. Thiel lx at redundancy.redundancy.org
Mon Mar 2 15:32:42 PST 2009


On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:30:46PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:35:38PM -0801, David E. Thiel wrote:
> > I would like to hear what people feel the best method for getting rid
> > of unused and irrelevant ports, though -- bump portrevision and mark
> > BROKEN for a few months?
> 
> How about marking them DEPRECATED and with an EXPIRATION_DATE, as is
> already commonly done?

Ah, fair enough. Been a while since I've run into those, so they slipped
my mind.


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