Aggressive ports removal

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Aug 30 22:03:50 UTC 2020


[ I seem to have missed the post to which this refers ]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Niclas Zeising wrote:

>> Exactly.  Another case in point: x11/xtset.  Maintenance stopped in 
>> 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence.  It works 
>> fine, and I find it very useful.  If at some time in the future it 
>> should no longer work with the latest and greatest iteration of the C 
>> programming language or ports structure, that shouldn't be a reason to 
>> discard it.

What does "xtset" do that the following script does not?  I picked it up 
from $JOB a couple of decades ago.

     /usr/local/bin/wintit:

     # Change window title.
     #
     #	0 means both title and icon.
     #	1 means icon
     #	2 means title
     #

     echo -n ']0;'$*''

Watch out for the embedded ESC and ^G chars, and modify as necessary for 
SysVile i.e. "-n" vs. "\c".  And no, printf(1) didn't exist back then,
and I'm too lazy to fix it now.

     aneurin% cat /usr/ports/x11/xtset/pkg-descr
     Utility to set title on an xterm.

-- Dave


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