TIL: there are alternative ports trees with ports that don't exist in FreeBSD's tree
Yuri
yuri at rawbw.com
Wed Jun 19 21:05:40 UTC 2019
Some people submit ports to this fork:
https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank
Some ports that exist there aren't in the main tree, for example "x11
<https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank/tree/lite/x11>/tilix".
If one person submits a new port into this "dank" mirror, and another
person would just commit the port for the same software to the main
ports tree, the work of the first contributor would be wasted, because
his port would just stay in this fork.
Yuri
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