FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

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On Sun, 4/13/14, Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion
 To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
 Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 11:45 AM
 
  
  On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny
  wrote:
 
  >>> On this list I see cfv, which I've used for
  years, marked just because
  >>> it's
  >>> not maintained. It works great, it needs no
  changes. 
 
 
  > I'm not officially a maintainer on any ports for a
 few
  reasons. I have other 
  > areas where I consider spending my time more
 valuable,
  but if I have to waste 
  > it on port maintenance, I'll try to do so in the most
  efficient way. 
  
  Well, you basically said you're more important than
 anybody
  that
  regularly reads this list, so good luck with that tact.
  .......................................................................................I
 regularly
 ........................................................................................read
 this list
 .........................................................................................and
 also
 ......................................................................................have
 not the
 ...................................................................................experience
 or time
  So you should become a committer.
   
  Try submitting the patches, including staging and assuming
  maintainership (and then honestly be the maintainer). 
  
   Staging is not an opt-in feature so as
  harsh as it is to
  say
  
  This indicates that you haven't been paying attention. 
  
  It's not a goal to have the most
  ports possible; 
  
 ...............................................Maybe take
 changes to a 
 subsection of the forum? I've posted there...
 
 A new subsection group: ports
 X11...
 WWW...
 DEVEL...
 maybe one DELETIONS ( a sticky or subsection)
 and/or PENDING DELETIONS ... and/or
 and deleted ports could be bought back again for those
 who find them useful, even if someone was reading about
 a years-ago removal.
 
 Pardiff (diffp ) comes to mind (just removed this week)
 I use the diffp binary for diffing ports-to-upgrade pipe
 results between days (diffp portlist.MON portlist.TUE)
 I suppose mergemaster.sh could even be updated to
 be more similar to the output of diffp.
 .....
 gfontview... 
 ...
 
 Just puttting that idea onto the forum expansion, which
 maybe could solve problems quicker than PR's.
 For instance, as of now,
 textproc/po4a
 x11/roxterm
 devel/dconf
 
 all fail to build "failed to load exteral entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/
 xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"  "
 
 and maybe if the forum had been expanded, threads (dconf
 po4a roxterm) would
 have been started/updated explaining the fix, if anyone knew
 it. 
 

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